From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932306AbVHKRcR (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:32:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932305AbVHKRcR (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:32:17 -0400 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([64.81.246.98]:24467 "EHLO are.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932273AbVHKRcQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:32:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:32:03 -0700 From: Richard Henderson To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace Message-ID: <20050811173203.GA31610@twiddle.net> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org References: <20050810080057.GA5295@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050810080057.GA5295@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch > statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most > architectures. This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the > arch-specific code as arch_ptrace. The signature of arch_ptrace needs to return long, and not int. The PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA,USR} requests return a "word", which on 64-bit arches needs to be a 64-bit type. r~