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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] nptl: Fix Race conditions in pthread cancellation [BZ#12683]
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:30:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs3zawud.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee159503-c5cb-b263-2007-55af8e03c86a@redhat.com> (Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha's message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2023 08:47:41 -0400")

* Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha:

> My opinion is that we should consider a model where the syscall is a
> range of instructions and that creates some interesting implementation
> details which I will discuss. Without your implementation I would
> never have thought this necessary, but your requirement to go back to
> legacy single instruction syscalls raises a yellow flag for me here.

I think it's not fair to bring up hypothetical glibc ports that may
never be submitted upstream.  We should evaluate the change in the
context of the present sources and supported architectures.

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-24 13:51 Adhemerval Zanella
2023-05-24 15:18 ` Florian Weimer
2023-08-28 12:47 ` Carlos O'Donell
2023-08-30 18:36   ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-08-31 18:30   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2023-09-08 12:22     ` Carlos O'Donell
2023-09-08 12:35       ` Florian Weimer

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