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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/27] ptrace: generic resume
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:23:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071125222352.GB1597@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071125220109.10BC726F8C5@magilla.localdomain>

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:01:09PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This makes ptrace_request handle all the ptrace requests that wake
> up the traced task.  These do low-level ptrace implementation magic
> that is not arch-specific and should be kept out of arch code.  The
> implementations on each arch usually do the same thing.  The new
> generic code makes use of the arch_has_single_step macro and generic
> entry points to handle PTRACE_SINGLESTEP.

Nice, I've been trying to get people to move this to common code for
a while :)


> +#ifdef PTRACE_SINGLESTEP
> +#define is_singlestep(request)		((request) == PTRACE_SINGLESTEP)
> +#else
> +#define is_singlestep(request)		0
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef PTRACE_SYSEMU
> +#define is_sysemu_singlestep(request)	((request) == PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP)
> +#else
> +#define is_sysemu_singlestep(request)	0
> +#endif

Could we by any chance just force every architecture using generic code
to implement PTRACE_SINGLESTEP and PTRACE_SYSEMU?  This will lead to
both far less messy code and a more consistant user interface.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-25 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-25 21:55 [PATCH 01/27] ptrace: arch_has_single_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:58 ` [PATCH 02/27] x86: segment selector macros Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:58 ` [PATCH 03/27] x86: remove TRAP_FLAG Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:59 ` [PATCH 04/27] x86: arch_has_single_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:59 ` [PATCH 05/27] x86: single_step moved Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 21:59 ` [PATCH 06/27] x86: single_step segment macros Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 07/27] x86: single_step 0xf0 Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 08/27] x86: single_step: share code Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 09/27] x86 single_step: TIF_FORCED_TF Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 10/27] ptrace: generic resume Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:23   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-11-25 22:37     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 11/27] x86-64: ptrace " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 12/27] x86-32: " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:03 ` [PATCH 13/27] powerpc: arch_has_single_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 14/27] powerpc: ptrace generic resume Roland McGrath
2007-12-03  8:12   ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 15/27] x86-32 ptrace: use task_pt_regs Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 16/27] x86-64 " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:04 ` [PATCH 17/27] x86-64 ptrace debugreg cleanup Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:05 ` [PATCH 18/27] x86-64 ia32 " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:05 ` [PATCH 19/27] x86-32 " Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:05 ` [PATCH 20/27] ptrace: arch_has_block_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-28 23:39   ` David Wilder
2007-11-28 23:58     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:06 ` [PATCH 21/27] ptrace: generic PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:06 ` [PATCH 22/27] x86: debugctlmsr constants Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 23/27] x86: debugctlmsr kconfig Roland McGrath
2007-11-26  1:09   ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-26  7:51     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-26 22:52       ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-26  1:57   ` Dave Jones
2007-11-26  8:06     ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 24/27] x86: debugctlmsr context switch Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 25/27] x86: debugctlmsr arch_has_block_step Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 26/27] x86: debugctlmsr kprobes Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:08 ` [PATCH 27/27] x86: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK Roland McGrath
2007-11-25 22:22 ` [PATCH 01/27] ptrace: arch_has_single_step Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-25 22:59   ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-27  8:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-27 10:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-27 23:05   ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-27 23:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-28  0:08       ` Roland McGrath

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