From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make PTRACE_GETREGSET return 32-bit regs if 64-bit process entered kernel with int 80
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:05:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511D2779.7040504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130214150046.GA30543@redhat.com>
On 02/14/2013 07:00 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>
>> Determining personality of a ptraced process is a murky area.
>> On x86, for years strace was looking at segment selectors,
>> which is conceptually wrong: see, for example,
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/320
>>
One proposal that keeps being on the table is to export a regset with
metadatam, including process mode at launch (i386, x86-64, x32).
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-14 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 13:17 [PATCH] x86: make PTRACE_GETREGSET return 32-bit regs if 64-bit process entered kernel with int 80 Denys Vlasenko
2013-02-14 15:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-14 16:26 ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-02-14 18:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-14 19:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-14 19:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-14 20:55 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-15 14:50 ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-02-15 14:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-15 15:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-15 15:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-15 15:42 ` Denys Vlasenko
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