Revision 0fb9a1abc8c97f858997e962694eb36b4517144e authored by Mathieu Desnoyers on 09 July 2018, 19:51:52 UTC, committed by Thomas Gleixner on 10 July 2018, 20:18:52 UTC
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

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