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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: do_syscall_stub :	PTRACE_SETREGS failed, errno = 5
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:07:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720140756.GA4577@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <804dabb00807200215n32b5171do97d344f2f954c490@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:15:16PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> And ptrace_setregs() calling ptrace() seemed to returned -errno almost
> immediately:
> 
> (gdb) s
> ptrace_setregs (pid=19131, regs=0x820aae0) at
> /mnt/hd0/download/linux-2.6-latest/arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace_user.c:18
> 18              if (ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGS, pid, 0, regs) < 0)
> (gdb) s
> 19                      return -errno;
> (gdb) s
> 
> Why is it so?

Because the registers are all zero.

	    	      	  Jeff

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-20 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-18 19:22 [uml-devel] Kernel panic - not syncing: do_syscall_stub : PTRACE_SETREGS failed, errno = 5 Peter Teoh
2008-07-18 20:55 ` Jeff Dike
2008-07-20  9:15   ` Peter Teoh
2008-07-20 14:07     ` Jeff Dike [this message]

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