linux-kernel - Re: rseq.2 Restartable Sequences man page updated

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Message-ID: <20200616161549.GZ2723@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:15:49 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Subject: Re: rseq.2 Restartable Sequences man page updated

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 02:23:17PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I took the liberty of updating the rseq.2 man page based on your
> last round of comments:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/librseq/librseq.git/tree/doc/man/rseq.2
> 
> Soon, rseq support will be integrated into glibc, and the maintainers
> there want a stable link to documentation of the rseq system call.
> Documentation is pretty much the only remaining blocker for integration
> of rseq support into glibc.
> 
> Ideally it should land into the man-pages project, but since it's been
> more than a year since I heard back from you, I am tempted to host it
> myself within the librseq project, even though it's far from ideal for
> hosting a kernel system call man page. Unfortunately, I suspect that
> hosting it in two locations (librseq and man-pages) will eventually
> create much confusion.
> 
> Can you look into the updated man page please ? I can do the edits
> if you have further feedback.

For whatever it is worth, this looks good to me.

Michael, any reason this cannot be included into the official set of
manual pages?

							Thanx, Paul