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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: roland@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] tracehook
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:24:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdz3qvta.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080718.022035.208722773.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:20:35 -0700 (PDT)")

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>
> The other arch's with compat support will have this same exact issue.

On x86-64 the sign extension is in C code, so it would be somewhat more
complicated to do a generic table or converter.

I think the tracer will always need to know if it's tracing 32bit
or 64bit though, because the interfaces are not always 100% compatible.
e.g. I suspect any serious one will need to look at memory 
arguments for some cases and those generally differ.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-18 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17  7:25 [PATCH 00/23] tracehook Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:27 ` [PATCH 01/23] tracehook: add linux/tracehook.h Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  8:48   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-17 11:06     ` Petr Tesarik
2008-07-17 21:50       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-17 13:34     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-18 11:57       ` Petr Tesarik
2008-07-17  7:28 ` [PATCH 02/23] tracehook: exec Roland McGrath
2008-07-21  8:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-17  7:28 ` [PATCH 03/23] tracehook: unexport ptrace_notify Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:28 ` [PATCH 04/23] tracehook: exit Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:29 ` [PATCH 05/23] tracehook: clone Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:29 ` [PATCH 06/23] tracehook: vfork-done Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:29 ` [PATCH 07/23] tracehook: release_task Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:29 ` [PATCH 08/23] tracehook: tracehook_tracer_task Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:29 ` [PATCH 09/23] tracehook: tracehook_expect_breakpoints Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 10/23] tracehook: tracehook_signal_handler Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 11/23] tracehook: tracehook_consider_ignored_signal Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 12/23] tracehook: tracehook_consider_fatal_signal Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 13/23] tracehook: syscall Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 14/23] tracehook: get_signal_to_deliver Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 15/23] tracehook: job control Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 16/23] tracehook: death Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:30 ` [PATCH 17/23] tracehook: force signal_pending() Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:31 ` [PATCH 18/23] tracehook: TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:31 ` [PATCH 19/23] tracehook: asm/syscall.h Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:31 ` [PATCH 20/23] tracehook: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:31 ` [PATCH 21/23] tracehook: wait_task_inactive Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:31 ` [PATCH 22/23] task_current_syscall Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:31 ` [PATCH 23/23] /proc/PID/syscall Roland McGrath
2008-07-17 22:56   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-21  8:19     ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  7:39 ` [PATCH 00/23] tracehook Andrew Morton
2008-07-17  8:11   ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  8:30     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17  8:37       ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-17  8:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-18  8:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21  9:59   ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-18  9:20 ` David Miller
2008-07-18 11:24   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-18 11:32     ` David Miller
2008-07-21 10:54   ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-21 15:18     ` David Miller

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