From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch v2 4/4] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:24:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dc9ffc81002092024x3865d856mb92012ad3e1f44cc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100210030737.E99A573D8@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > There is no need for a global function for this. It should all be static
>> > in kernel/ptrace.c, called only by ptrace_request()/compat_ptrace_request().
>> >
>>
>> Won't it be called by ptrace emulation in utrace?
>
> I guess I don't really understand the question. I'm not aware of any
> patches where any such things are done anywhere except the existing
> ptrace_request and compat_ptrace_request functions in kernel/ptrace.c.
>
I guess it isn't needed to be global then.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 20:13 [patch v2 0/4] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - V2 Suresh Siddha
2010-02-09 20:13 ` [patch v2 1/4] revert "x86: ptrace and core-dump extensions for xstate" Suresh Siddha
2010-02-09 22:54 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] Revert " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-09 20:13 ` [patch v2 2/4] x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate Suresh Siddha
2010-02-09 22:54 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] x86, ptrace: Regset " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-10 1:30 ` [patch v2 2/4] x86, ptrace: regset " Roland McGrath
2010-02-10 10:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-10 11:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-10 15:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-10 18:26 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-10 14:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-10 15:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-09 20:13 ` [patch v2 3/4] x86, ptrace: prepare regset get/set routines for user specified lengths Suresh Siddha
2010-02-09 22:55 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] x86, ptrace: Prepare " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-10 1:32 ` [patch v2 3/4] x86, ptrace: prepare " Roland McGrath
2010-02-09 20:13 ` [patch v2 4/4] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Suresh Siddha
2010-02-09 22:55 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-10 1:52 ` [patch v2 4/4] " Roland McGrath
2010-02-10 2:03 ` H.J. Lu
2010-02-10 3:07 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-10 4:24 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2010-02-10 13:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-10 19:12 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-11 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-11 3:30 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-10 1:12 ` [patch v2 0/4] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - V2 Roland McGrath
2010-02-10 1:22 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-02-10 7:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-10 18:58 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-11 2:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-11 3:45 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-11 4:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
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