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glibc-2.35 (upcoming release date 2022-02-01) exposes the rseq per-thread data in the TCB, accessible at an offset from the thread pointer, rather than through an actual Thread-Local Storage (TLS) variable, as the Linux kernel selftests initially expected. The __rseq_abi TLS and glibc-2.35's ABI for per-thread data cannot actively coexist in a process, because the kernel supports only a single rseq registration per thread. Here is the scheme introduced to ensure selftests can work both with an older glibc and with glibc-2.35+: - librseq exposes its own "rseq_offset, rseq_size, rseq_flags" ABI. - librseq queries for glibc rseq ABI (__rseq_offset, __rseq_size, __rseq_flags) using dlsym() in a librseq library constructor. If those are found, copy their values into rseq_offset, rseq_size, and rseq_flags. - Else, if those glibc symbols are not found, handle rseq registration from librseq and use its own IE-model TLS to implement the rseq ABI per-thread storage. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220124171253.22072-8-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.
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.