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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Allow ptrace write to pt_regs trap
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:33:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180499611.19517.222.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFF7AF7C86.A40E5407-ON422572EA.00560C99-422572EA.00563CD2@de.ibm.com>


> This doesn't look sufficient.  If you want GDB to use the save/ 
> restore style means of handling interrupted calls (like i386), 
> at the very least we also need the capability to *write* the 
> orig_gpr3 field, which is currently prohibited.  (I don't know 
> why this is case, though.) 

Ok, I found it... put_reg doesn't filter it out but the caller does.
Fixing that too.

Ben.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-30  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-29  6:45 [RFC/PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Allow ptrace write to pt_regs trap Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 15:41 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-05-29 21:41   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 13:08     ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-05-30  4:33   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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