Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 1/5] Thread-local ABI system call: cache CPU number
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On 04/04/2016 07:01 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> NAME
>        thread_local_abi  -  Shared  memory  interface  between user-space
>        threads and the kernel

We already have set_robust_list, which is conceptually similar.

Florian