----- On Apr 28, 2020, at 8:33 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ----- On Apr 28, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Florian Weimer fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > [...] >> >>> x32 should not be an issue as explained above, so I'm very open to >>> add this "uptr" for user-space only. >> >> Okay, then please use anonymous unions and structs as necessary, to >> ensure that the uptr field can be reached on all platforms in the same >> way. > > OK, will do! What I came up with looks like this. User-space can use rseq_cs.uptr.ptr both on 32-bit and 64-bit to update the pointer: /* Restartable sequences rseq_cs field. Contains NULL when no critical section is active for the current thread, or holds a pointer to the currently active struct rseq_cs. Updated by user-space, which sets the address of the currently active rseq_cs at the beginning of assembly instruction sequence block, and set to NULL by the kernel when it restarts an assembly instruction sequence block, as well as when the kernel detects that it is preempting or delivering a signal outside of the range targeted by the rseq_cs. Also needs to be set to NULL by user-space before reclaiming memory that contains the targeted struct rseq_cs. Read and set by the kernel. Set by user-space with single-copy atomicity semantics. This field should only be updated by the thread which registered this data structure. Aligned on 64-bit. User-space may perform the update through the rseq_cs.uptr.ptr field. The padding needs to be initialized to zero on 32-bit. */ union { uint64_t ptr64; #ifdef __LP64__ uint64_t ptr; #else struct { # if (defined (__BYTE_ORDER) && (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)) || defined (__BIG_ENDIAN) uint32_t padding; /* Initialized to zero. */ uint32_t ptr32; # else /* LITTLE */ uint32_t ptr32; uint32_t padding; /* Initialized to zero. */ # endif /* ENDIAN */ } ptr; #endif #ifndef __KERNEL__ struct { # ifdef __LP64__ const struct rseq_cs *ptr; # else # if (defined (__BYTE_ORDER) && (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)) || defined (__BIG_ENDIAN) uint32_t padding; /* Initialized to zero. */ const struct rseq_cs *ptr; # else /* LITTLE */ const struct rseq_cs *ptr; uint32_t padding; /* Initialized to zero. */ # endif /* ENDIAN */ # endif } uptr; #endif } rseq_cs; Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com