Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | [RFC PATCH v7 4/7] Restartable sequences: wire up ARM 32 system call | Date | Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:14:19 -0400 |
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Wire up the rseq system call on 32-bit ARM.
This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu operation on ARM by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast path, as well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu data compared to using load-linked/store-conditional.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> CC: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org --- arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/calls.S | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h index 2cb9dc7..8f61c79 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ #define __NR_copy_file_range (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+391) #define __NR_preadv2 (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+392) #define __NR_pwritev2 (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+393) +#define __NR_rseq (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+394) /* * The following SWIs are ARM private. diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S index 703fa0f..0865c04 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S @@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ CALL(sys_copy_file_range) CALL(sys_preadv2) CALL(sys_pwritev2) + CALL(sys_rseq) #ifndef syscalls_counted .equ syscalls_padding, ((NR_syscalls + 3) & ~3) - NR_syscalls #define syscalls_counted -- 2.1.4
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