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Thomas Gleixner 32034df66b rseq: Switch to TIF_RSEQ if supported
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is a multiplexing TIF bit, which is suboptimal especially
with the RSEQ fast path depending on it, but not really handling it.

Define a separate TIF_RSEQ in the generic TIF space and enable the full
separation of fast and slow path for architectures which utilize that.

That avoids the hassle with invocations of resume_user_mode_work() from
hypervisors, which clear TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. It makes the therefore required
re-evaluation at the end of vcpu_run() a NOOP on architectures which
utilize the generic TIF space and have a separate TIF_RSEQ.

The hypervisor TIF handling does not include the separate TIF_RSEQ as there
is no point in doing so. The guest does neither know nor care about the VMM
host applications RSEQ state. That state is only relevant when the ioctl()
returns to user space.

The fastpath implementation still utilizes TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for failure
handling, but this only happens within exit_to_user_mode_loop(), so
arguably the hypervisor ioctl() code is long done when this happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084307.903622031@linutronix.de
2025-11-04 08:35:37 +01:00
Documentation rseq: Provide static branch for runtime debugging 2025-11-04 08:32:49 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
arch entry: Split up exit_to_user_mode_prepare() 2025-11-04 08:35:17 +01:00
block block-6.18-20251031 2025-10-31 12:57:19 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
drivers rseq, virt: Retrigger RSEQ after vcpu_run() 2025-11-04 08:30:23 +01:00
fs rseq: Optimize event setting 2025-11-04 08:34:03 +01:00
include rseq: Switch to TIF_RSEQ if supported 2025-11-04 08:35:37 +01:00
init rseq: Switch to fast path processing on exit to user 2025-11-04 08:34:39 +01:00
io_uring io_uring: fix buffer auto-commit for multishot uring_cmd 2025-10-23 19:41:31 -06:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel rseq: Switch to TIF_RSEQ if supported 2025-11-04 08:35:37 +01:00
lib Second round of Kbuild fixes for 6.19 2025-11-01 10:00:53 -07:00
mm slab fixes for 6.18-rc3 2025-10-24 12:40:51 -07:00
net bpf-fixes 2025-10-31 18:22:26 -07:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.18-rc3 2025-10-25 11:03:46 -07:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup 2025-11-01 00:23:22 -04:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.18 2025-10-30 13:08:08 +01:00
tools objtool: Fix skip_alt_group() for non-alternative STAC/CLAC 2025-11-01 07:43:20 +01:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt rseq, virt: Retrigger RSEQ after vcpu_run() 2025-11-04 08:30:23 +01:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap linux_kselftest-kunit-fixes-6.18-rc4 2025-10-30 19:11:27 -07:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Second round of Kbuild fixes for 6.19 2025-11-01 10:00:53 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc4 2025-11-02 11:28:02 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.