Restartable sequences restarted... with "frightening code"

Posted Aug 25, 2016 2:55 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
Parent article: Restartable sequences restarted

the rather frightening assembly-in-CPP code found here and here.

When our esteemed editor starts describing prospective kernel code as "frightening", then I think it's time to really be scared.

In other words, don't try the self-tests without bracing yourself for possible blindness when browsing the code. ;-)

Regardless, this looks like a useful feature. Hopefully it gains enough traction to make it in...

Restartable sequences restarted... with "frightening code"

Posted Aug 31, 2016 19:41 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

This is not kernel code. This is *userspace* code. i.e. this is something the *users* of this feature have to do (or, more likely, use this very code, migrated to a proper library, to do).