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From: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/27] ptrace: arch_has_block_step
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:39:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474DFC4B.5060006@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071125220552.C8D5126F8C5@magilla.localdomain>

Roland McGrath wrote:
<snip>
> 
> +#ifndef arch_has_block_step
> +/**
> + * arch_has_block_step - does this CPU support user-mode block-step?
> + *
> + * If this is defined, then there must be a function declaration or inline
> + * for user_enable_block_step(), and arch_has_single_step() must be defined
> + * too.  arch_has_block_step() should evaluate to nonzero iff the machine
> + * supports step-until-branch for user mode.  It can be a constant or it
> + * can test a CPU feature bit.
> + */
> +#define arch_has_single_step()		(0)

should this be #define arch_has_block_step()		(0)

> +
> +/**
> + * user_enable_block_step - step until branch in user-mode task
> + * @task: either current or a task stopped in %TASK_TRACED
> + *
> + * This can only be called when arch_has_block_step() has returned nonzero,
> + * and will never be called when single-instruction stepping is being used.
> + * Set @task so that when it returns to user mode, it will trap after the
> + * next branch or trap taken.
> + */
> +static inline void user_enable_block_step(struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> +	BUG();			/* This can never be called.  */
> +}
> +#endif	/* arch_has_block_step */
> +
<snip>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-25 21:55 [PATCH 01/27] ptrace: arch_has_single_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:58 ` [PATCH 02/27] x86: segment selector macros Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:58 ` [PATCH 03/27] x86: remove TRAP_FLAG Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:59 ` [PATCH 04/27] x86: arch_has_single_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:59 ` [PATCH 05/27] x86: single_step moved Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:59 ` [PATCH 06/27] x86: single_step segment macros Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 07/27] x86: single_step 0xf0 Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 08/27] x86: single_step: share code Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 09/27] x86 single_step: TIF_FORCED_TF Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 10/27] ptrace: generic resume Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-25 22:37     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 11/27] x86-64: ptrace " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 12/27] x86-32: " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:03 ` [PATCH 13/27] powerpc: arch_has_single_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:03   ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 14/27] powerpc: ptrace generic resume Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04   ` Roland McGrath
2007-12-03  8:12   ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-03  8:12     ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 15/27] x86-32 ptrace: use task_pt_regs Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 16/27] x86-64 " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 17/27] x86-64 ptrace debugreg cleanup Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:05 ` [PATCH 18/27] x86-64 ia32 " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:05 ` [PATCH 19/27] x86-32 " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:05 ` [PATCH 20/27] ptrace: arch_has_block_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-28 23:39   ` David Wilder [this message]
2007-11-28 23:58     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:06 ` [PATCH 21/27] ptrace: generic PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:06 ` [PATCH 22/27] x86: debugctlmsr constants Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 23/27] x86: debugctlmsr kconfig Roland McGrath
2007-11-26  1:09   ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-26  7:51     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-26 22:52       ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-26  1:57   ` Dave Jones
2007-11-26  8:06     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 24/27] x86: debugctlmsr context switch Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 25/27] x86: debugctlmsr arch_has_block_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 26/27] x86: debugctlmsr kprobes Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 27/27] x86: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:22 ` [PATCH 01/27] ptrace: arch_has_single_step Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-25 22:59   ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-27  8:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-27 10:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-27 23:05   ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-27 23:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-28  0:08       ` Roland McGrath

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