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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dvlasenk@redhat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ptrace: simplify PTRACE_foo constants and PTRACE_SETOPTIONS code
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:32:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110910233250.GC29319@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109090829.34222.vda.linux@googlemail.com>

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:29:34AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> ptrace: simplify PTRACE_foo constants and PTRACE_SETOPTIONS code
> 
> Exchange PT_TRACESYSGOOD and PT_PTRACE_CAP bit positions, which makes
> PT_option bits contiguous and therefore makes code in ptrace_setoptions()
> much simpler.
> 
> Every PTRACE_O_TRACEevent is defined to (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_event)
> instead of using explicit numeric constants, to ensure we don't
> mess up relationship between bit positions and event ids.
> 
> PT_EVENT_FLAG_SHIFT was not particularly useful, PT_OPT_FLAG_SHIFT with
> value of PT_EVENT_FLAG_SHIFT-1 is easier to use.
> 
> PT_TRACE_MASK constant is nuked, the only its use is replaced by
> (PTRACE_O_MASK << PT_OPT_FLAG_SHIFT).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-10 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-09  6:22 [PATCH 0/2] Fixes and cleanups in PTRACE_SETOPTIONS Denys Vlasenko
2011-09-09  6:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] ptrace: don't modify flags on PTRACE_SETOPTIONS failure Denys Vlasenko
2011-09-09  6:29   ` [PATCH 2/2] ptrace: simplify PTRACE_foo constants and PTRACE_SETOPTIONS code Denys Vlasenko
2011-09-10 23:32     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-09-09 12:44   ` [PATCH 1/2] ptrace: don't modify flags on PTRACE_SETOPTIONS failure Indan Zupancic
2011-09-09 12:58     ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-09-09 16:22       ` Indan Zupancic
2011-09-10 23:32   ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-09 15:28 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fixes and cleanups in PTRACE_SETOPTIONS Oleg Nesterov

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