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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: supriya kannery <supriyak@in.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requests PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, SETREGS, GETFPREGS, SETFPREGS
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:35:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164231343.5653.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164220580.12365.8.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 18:36 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On
> > This is because PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS option for powerpc is implemented 
> > such that general purpose
> > registers of the child process get copied to the address variable 
> > instead of data variable. Same is
> > the case with other PPC request options PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS, GETFPREGS 
> > and SETFPREGS.
> > 
> > Prepared a patch for this problem and tested with 2.6.18-rc6 kernel. 
> > This patch can be applied directly to 2.6.19-rc3 kernel.
> 
> A more appropriate place to send this would be the linux-ppc development
> list.

Also it's possible that existing code like gcc relies on that "feature"
no ?

Ben.
 


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 10:53 Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requests PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, SETREGS, GETFPREGS, SETFPREGS supriya kannery
2006-10-25 20:43 ` David Miller
2006-10-27  7:20   ` supriya kannery
2006-10-27  7:10     ` David Miller
2006-10-31 12:18       ` supriya kannery
2006-11-22 18:36 ` David Woodhouse
2006-11-22 21:35   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-12-04 21:58   ` Anton Blanchard
2007-04-30  5:42     ` Paul Mackerras

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