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authorThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>2025-12-19 11:51:22 +0100
committerThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>2025-12-19 11:51:22 +0100
commit5add3c3c280a35f7e258e9cef7607db5a2e56fdc (patch)
tree22eca9a4a1003a64933980bf76da2fbe8a74f759 /include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
parentc7b83a916d62c4d4447d7edf0bc5e06dc2afbdf8 (diff)
parent8f0b4cce4481fb22653697cced8d0d04027cb1e8 (diff)
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next
Backmerging to bring in 6.19-rc1. An important upstream bugfix and to help unblock PTL CI. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/rseq.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/rseq.h21
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h b/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
index c233aae5eac9..1b76d508400c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
@@ -114,20 +114,13 @@ struct rseq {
/*
* Restartable sequences flags field.
*
- * This field should only be updated by the thread which
- * registered this data structure. Read by the kernel.
- * Mainly used for single-stepping through rseq critical sections
- * with debuggers.
- *
- * - RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_PREEMPT
- * Inhibit instruction sequence block restart on preemption
- * for this thread.
- * - RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_SIGNAL
- * Inhibit instruction sequence block restart on signal
- * delivery for this thread.
- * - RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_MIGRATE
- * Inhibit instruction sequence block restart on migration for
- * this thread.
+ * This field was initially intended to allow event masking for
+ * single-stepping through rseq critical sections with debuggers.
+ * The kernel does not support this anymore and the relevant bits
+ * are checked for being always false:
+ * - RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_PREEMPT
+ * - RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_SIGNAL
+ * - RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_MIGRATE
*/
__u32 flags;