From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helge Deller Subject: Re: missing compat_sys_ptrace conversions for mips and parisc Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:14:34 +0200 Message-ID: <48A8081A.4080609@gmx.de> References: <20080817022924.GA23625@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Kyle McMartin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080817022924.GA23625@lst.de> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Currently mips and parisc are the only architectures not yet converted > to the generic compat_sys_ptrace. The conversion is rather trivial and > only involves splitting the current compat_ptrace handler into a > compat_arch_ptrace with all the meat and the existing compat_sys_ptrace > that does all the boilerplate code, just like the generic sys_ptrace. > To get the generic compat_sys_ptrace you have to add a > > #define __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE > > to ptrace.h for now, but once mips and parisc are converted this will of > course be removed. Take a look at the powerpc conversion as an example: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=81e695c026eeda9a97e412fa4f458e5cab2f6c85 I could take care of this for parisc. Just looked into the code and it seems it could cleanup the code nicely as well. But I don't want to step on Kyle's toe, since I assume he prepares the asm-parisc/ move in the parisc-2.6 git tree during the next days. Kyle: any comments? Should I prepare some patches? Or do you want to take care of the compat_sys_ptrace yourself? Helge