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From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	jason.wessel@windriver.com, avi@qumranet.com,
	richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace to use wrapper routines to access breakpoint registers
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:00:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204173033.GA7715@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016014446.374641544CB@magilla.localdomain>

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:44:46PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Just make the new functions in hw_breakpoint code use the same old ptrace_*
> names.  Those are the proper names for this.  It really is just compatibility
> for the old ptrace interface, not any other reason for "thread" debugregs.
> Then this patch need do nothing but remove the static ptrace.c functions.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Roland
>
I will rename the thread_<set/get>_debugreg() functions to ptrace_* and
move the related functions to arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Thanks,
K.Prasad
 

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 19:20 [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - v2 K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:23 ` [RFC Patch 1/9] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2008-10-16  2:49   ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-16  3:45     ` K.Prasad
2008-10-18  0:34       ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-16 14:38     ` Alan Stern
2008-10-17 23:58       ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-18 15:23         ` Alan Stern
2008-10-08 19:23 ` [RFC Patch 2/9] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2008-10-16  2:57   ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-08 19:24 ` [RFC Patch 3/9] Modifying generic debug exception to use virtual debug registers K.Prasad
2008-10-16  0:25   ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-16 14:12     ` Alan Stern
2008-10-16 19:22       ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-17 15:55         ` Alan Stern
2008-10-17 23:24           ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-17 23:27             ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-18 15:21             ` Alan Stern
2008-12-04 12:13               ` K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:24 ` [RFC Patch 4/9] Modify kprobe exception handler to recognise single-stepping by HW Breakpoint handler K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:25 ` [RFC Patch 5/9] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:25 ` [RFC Patch 6/9] Use virtual debug registers in process/thread handling code K.Prasad
2008-10-16  1:44   ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-16 14:27     ` Alan Stern
2008-10-18  0:08       ` Roland McGrath
2008-10-18 15:34         ` Alan Stern
2008-12-03  4:54           ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-04  1:05           ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-04 12:23             ` K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:26 ` [RFC Patch 7/9] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:26 ` [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace to use wrapper routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2008-10-16  1:44   ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-04 17:30     ` K.Prasad [this message]
2008-10-08 19:27 ` [RFC Patch 9/9] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-07 11:38 [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2008-10-07 11:46 ` [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace to use wrapper routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad

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