Messages in this thread | | Date | Sat, 23 May 2015 13:11:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] percpu system call: fast userspace percpu critical sections | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote: > Expose a new system call allowing userspace threads to register > a TLS area used as an ABI between the kernel and userspace to > share information required to create efficient per-cpu critical > sections in user-space.
Not a way in hell.
You do user accesses from preempt notifiers.
That's so ludicrously broken that it's not even funny.
This patch needs to die, and never *ever* be resurrected. Put a stake in it, and bury it 6ft deep.
Linus
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