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authorJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>2026-03-22 15:20:42 +0300
committerJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>2026-03-22 15:20:42 +0300
commit9e4e86a604dfd06402933467578c4b79f5412b2c (patch)
tree5cf2d962b699987c8a785e35a5f5c5f450532c0a /include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
parente8b83499b4cbc8b989f7cd6aaa893b669326e93c (diff)
parentf338e77383789c0cae23ca3d48adcc5e9e137e3c (diff)
downloadlinux-9e4e86a604dfd06402933467578c4b79f5412b2c.tar.xz
Merge tag 'v7.0-rc4' into togreg
Linux 7.0-rc4 Required for the ds4422 series which is build upon; 5187e03b817c ("iio: dac: ds4424: reject -128 RAW value")
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/rseq.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/rseq.h26
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h b/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
index 863c4a00a66b..f69344fe6c08 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
@@ -87,10 +87,17 @@ struct rseq_slice_ctrl {
};
/*
- * struct rseq is aligned on 4 * 8 bytes to ensure it is always
- * contained within a single cache-line.
+ * The original size and alignment of the allocation for struct rseq is
+ * 32 bytes.
*
- * A single struct rseq per thread is allowed.
+ * The allocation size needs to be greater or equal to
+ * max(getauxval(AT_RSEQ_FEATURE_SIZE), 32), and the allocation needs to
+ * be aligned on max(getauxval(AT_RSEQ_ALIGN), 32).
+ *
+ * As an alternative, userspace is allowed to use both the original size
+ * and alignment of 32 bytes for backward compatibility.
+ *
+ * A single active struct rseq registration per thread is allowed.
*/
struct rseq {
/*
@@ -181,9 +188,20 @@ struct rseq {
struct rseq_slice_ctrl slice_ctrl;
/*
+ * Before rseq became extensible, its original size was 32 bytes even
+ * though the active rseq area was only 20 bytes.
+ * Exposing a 32 bytes feature size would make life needlessly painful
+ * for userspace. Therefore, add a reserved byte after byte 32
+ * to bump the rseq feature size from 32 to 33.
+ * The next field to be added to the rseq area will be larger
+ * than one byte, and will replace this reserved byte.
+ */
+ __u8 __reserved;
+
+ /*
* Flexible array member at end of structure, after last feature field.
*/
char end[];
-} __attribute__((aligned(4 * sizeof(__u64))));
+} __attribute__((aligned(32)));
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_RSEQ_H */