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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>2026-04-16 21:01:18 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>2026-04-16 21:01:18 +0200
commitd4eb7b2da66c848709e31585b9c371fa234abc39 (patch)
tree5c6311cfa45567ecdcb8946a2252da7d55d1ac10 /include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
parent8b9a097eb2fc37b486afd81388c693bf3ab44466 (diff)
parent69c02ffde6ed4d535fa4e693a9e572729cad3d0d (diff)
Merge branch 'for-7.1/core-v2' into for-linus
- fixed handling of 0-sized reports (Dmitry Torokhov) - convert core code to __free() (Dmitry Torokhov) - support for multiple batteries per HID device (Lucas Zampieri)
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 */