From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ptrace: change tracehook_report_syscall_exit() to handle stepping
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:58:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113195858.GA12049@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113112530.c10a3743.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 11/13, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:38:53 +0100
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Change tracehook_report_syscall_exit() to look at step flag and send
> > the trap signal if needed.
> >
> > This change affects ia64, microblaze, parisc, powerpc, sh. They pass
> > nonzero "step" argument to tracehook but since it was ignored the tracee
> > reports via ptrace_notify(), this is not right and not consistent.
>
> This patch conflicts with utrace-core.patch a bit:
Ah, indeed, sorry...
> static inline void tracehook_report_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, int step)
> {
> if (step) {
> siginfo_t info;
> user_single_step_siginfo(current, regs, &info);
> force_sig_info(SIGTRAP, &info, current);
> return;
> }
>
> + if (task_utrace_flags(current) & UTRACE_EVENT(SYSCALL_EXIT))
> + utrace_report_syscall_exit(regs);
> ptrace_report_syscall(regs);
> }
>
>
> utrace-core.patch is getting rather old. What is its status?
Roland, given that you are going to send the updated utrace patch,
perhaps it makes sense to drop this old utrace-core.patch from -mm?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 17:38 [PATCH v2 3/5] ptrace: change tracehook_report_syscall_exit() to handle stepping Oleg Nesterov
2009-11-13 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 19:58 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-11-13 20:15 ` Roland McGrath
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