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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH glibc 4/8] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v15)
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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:53:48 +0100
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* Mathieu Desnoyers via Libc-alpha:

> Changes since v14:
> - Update copyright range to include 2020.
> - Introduce __ASSUME_RSEQ defined for --enable-kernel=4.18.0 and higher.
> - Use ifdef __ASSUME_RSEQ rather than ifdef __NR_rseq to discover rseq
>   availability. This is necessary now that the system call numbers are
>   integrated within glibc.

It's not quite clear to me why you need __ASSUME_RSEQ.

Can you use __has_include in <sys/rseq.h>, with a copy of the kernel
definitions if the kernel header is not available?