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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jparadis@redhat.com, cagney@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64 singlestep through sigreturn system call
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:23:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040713092344.39ea00a3.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407130022.i6D0MUdI023333@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:22:30 -0700
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:


> This patch fixes the problem by forcing a fake single-step trap at the end
> of rt_sigreturn when PTRACE_SINGLESTEP was used to enter the system call.

I don't like this very much, see previous mail.

If you really wanted to do it:

Wouldn't it be simpler to just copy the TF bit from the previous Eflags? 
This special case looks quite ugly.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-13  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-13  0:22 [PATCH] x86-64 singlestep through sigreturn system call Roland McGrath
2004-07-13  7:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-07-15  0:56   ` Roland McGrath
2004-07-15  5:46     ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-15 21:13       ` Roland McGrath
2004-07-15 22:06         ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-15 23:57           ` Roland McGrath
     [not found] <2imAA-4n7-49@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2iosE-5Kb-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-17 11:12   ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-22  2:16     ` Roland McGrath
2004-07-22  6:11       ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-22 22:58         ` Roland McGrath

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