Re: Questions and comments about restartable sequences

[Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>]

On 20/11/15 14:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/20/2015 03:20 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > I have a few questions regarding restartable sequences, regarding
> > userspace.  I don't read LKML, so sorry if I missed something already
> > said elsewhere.  I'm doing concurrency stuff in glibc, so that's the
> > perspective of the following questions.  I'd like to see something like
> > the restartable sequences being offered, and would try to contribute to
> > the userspace side of this.
>
> Torvald,
>
> would you please provide some background references for the benefit of
> the libc-alpha audience?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/27/1095

per cpu critical section that can be restarted
on interrupt or scheduling events.

but i don't know how this can be provided
in libc (or is it for libc internal things?
per cpu malloc?)