linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH glibc 1/3] glibc: Perform rseq registration at C startup and thread creation (v20)

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
Cc:     Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        libc-alpha <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ben Maurer <bmaurer@...com>, Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Paul <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH glibc 1/3] glibc: Perform rseq registration at C startup
 and thread creation (v20)

----- On Jun 4, 2020, at 1:46 PM, Joseph Myers joseph@...esourcery.com wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Mathieu Desnoyers via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
>> That external piece of documentation would be part of the Linux man-pages
>> project, maintained by Michael Kerrisk. I have submitted a few revisions
>> of the rseq(2) man page, but have been waiting for Michael to reply for more
>> than a year now:
>> 
>>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/2021826204.69809.1588000508294.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com
>> 
>> I'm thinking about hosting a rseq(2) man-page into my librseq project, would
>> that make sense ?
> 
> I'm not particularly concerned with exactly where it goes, as long as it's
> somewhere stable we can link to.

I managed to get a repository up and running for librseq, and have integrated
the rseq.2 man page with comments from Michael Kerrisk here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/librseq/librseq.git/tree/doc/man/rseq.2

Is that a suitable URL ? Can we simply point to it from glibc's manual ?

Thanks,

Mathieu


> 
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@...esourcery.com

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com