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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: add ability to get clear_tid_address
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:20:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120208192019.GM1909@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120208190250.GA23163@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Right, as I said.  :-)  I saw that a watchpoint trap isn't reported either
> > for the CLONE_CHILD_SETTID case (that is, within clone, when the kernel
> > writes the tid to the memory address passed in to the clone syscall).
> 
> Yes. But in this case the new thread has no bps even if it is auto-
> attached.
> 
> IOW, I think that hw bp can detect the write from the kernel space,
> but I didn't check.

yes, that's how kgdb work (if only I'm not missing something obvious)

	Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-08 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03 11:11 [PATCH] ptrace: add ability to get clear_tid_address Andrew Vagin
2012-02-03 16:25 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-03 16:30   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-03 16:41     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-03 16:54       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-03 16:45   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-02-03 16:51     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-07 20:07       ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-07 20:56         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-07 21:15           ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-07 21:51             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-08 12:30               ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-08 12:42                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-08 17:31                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-08 18:04                   ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-08 19:02                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-08 19:20                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-02-08 19:21                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-02-08 19:42                       ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-08 13:41         ` Andrew Vagin
2012-02-08 18:12           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-02-10  3:02             ` Jamie Lokier

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