From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] s390: Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack.
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:33:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209547985.10954.29.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430091900.GA13743@infradead.org>
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 05:19 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> >
> > The self referential PT_IEEE_IP ptrace peek & poke calls have been
> > broken for that last 6 years. For peek the code always returns 0
> > instead of the last ieee fault and for poke the code does nothing.
> > Since nobody noticed the code seems to be superfluous. So lets
> > remove it.
>
> After this the switch to the generic sys_ptrace is trivial. Care to
> submit a patch for that aswell?
True, that makes sense. I'll do that right after lunch.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 9:14 [patch] s390: Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack Martin Schwidefsky
2008-04-30 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-30 9:33 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2008-04-30 11:36 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-04-30 12:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-30 12:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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