From: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM (David Laight)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: always update thread_info->syscall
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:48:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23ea6d5cbaac4cc3ad60d6184bbd1997@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181127153553.GE30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
From: Russell King - ARM Linux
> Sent: 27 November 2018 15:36
...
> There appears to be no documentation at all of this interface, so there
> is no definition of how it is supposed to work or what it is supposed
> to expose beyond what little information is in the original patch:
>
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.2/0577.html
>
> This adds /proc/PID/syscall and /proc/PID/task/TID/syscall magic files.
> These use task_current_syscall() to show the task's current system call
> number and argument registers, stack pointer and PC. For a task blocked
> but not in a syscall, the file shows "-1" in place of the syscall number,
> followed by only the SP and PC. For a task that's not blocked, it shows
> "running".
I 'like' the way the columns for sp and pc jump about ...
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-27 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-26 22:53 [PATCH] arm: always update thread_info->syscall Rafael David Tinoco
2018-11-26 23:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-26 23:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-26 23:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-27 10:30 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2018-11-27 10:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-27 15:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-27 15:48 ` David Laight [this message]
2018-11-27 20:52 ` Rafael David Tinoco
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