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Update rseq uapi header comments to reflect that user-space need to do thread-local loads/stores from/to the struct rseq fields. As a consequence of this added requirement, the kernel does not need to perform loads/stores with single-copy atomicity. Update the comment associated to the "flags" fields to describe more accurately that it's only useful to facilitate single-stepping through rseq critical sections with debuggers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709195155.7654-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.