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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: 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>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: add ability to get clear_tid_address
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:07:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F31848A.9070406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120203165132.GA5636@redhat.com>

On 02/03/2012 04:51 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/03, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

>> Because there's no need for current to get this value of himself, but can
>> be useful for e.g. gdb.
> 
> OK, perhaps this makes sense, I do not know.
> 
> Jan, Pedro, do you think gdb can use PTRACE_GET_TID_ADDRESS (returns
> tracee->clear_child_tid) ?

Off hand, I'm not picturing a use.  But that may well just mean I'm lacking
imagination.  Andrew, Pavel, did you have a particular idea in mind when you
said it may be useful for debugging a multithreading program / gdb?

-- 
Pedro Alves

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 20:07 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 [this message]
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
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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