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Subject: [RFC PATCH for 4.16 04/21] arm: Wire up restartable sequences system call
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:13:46 -0500
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Wire up the rseq system call on 32-bit ARM.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu
operation on ARM by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast path, as
well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu data
compared to using load-linked/store-conditional.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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---
 arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
index 0bb0e9c6376c..fbc74b5fa3ed 100644
--- a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
@@ -412,3 +412,4 @@
 395	common	pkey_alloc		sys_pkey_alloc
 396	common	pkey_free		sys_pkey_free
 397	common	statx			sys_statx
+398	common	rseq			sys_rseq
-- 
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