linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call

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Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:01:16 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Ben Maurer <bmaurer@...com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        David Goldblatt <davidgoldblatt@...com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call

> That sounds so obvious and stupid that you might go "What do you
> mean?", but for things to work for libraries, they have to work
> together with *other* users, and with *independent* users.

As far as I can see the current model fundamentally only works for
one user per process (because there is only a single range and abort IP) 

So once malloc started using it noone else could.

Since malloc is the primary user it would be pointless to ever
try it on something else.

It seems fixing that would complicate everything quite a bit --
all ranges would need to be (unlimited?) arrays.

-Andi