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To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix vsyscall unwind information
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From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Date: 06 May 2003 01:10:37 +0200
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Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> writes:

> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:05:58AM -0700, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> >   Richard> Why?  Certainly it isn't needed for x86.
> > 
> > Certain applications (such as debuggers) want to know.  Sure, you can
> > do symbol matching (if you have the symbol table) or code-reading
> > (assuming you know the exact sigreturn sequence), but having a marker
> > would be more reliable and faster.
> 
> Eh.  The whole point was to *eliminate* the special cases.
> 
> If the debugger does nothing special now, it'll see the symbol
> from the VDSO in the backtrace and print __kernel_sigreturn.
> Isn't this sufficient for the user to recognize what's going on?
> Does it really need to print <signal frame>?

Unfortunately, GDB needs to be able to recognize signal trampolines in
order to be able to single step correctly when a signal arrives.  At
least on some platforms.  Could be that the code-path in question
isn't used for Linux/i386, but I vaguely remember it does.

Anyway, signal trampolines could be marked with a special augmentation
in their CIE.

Mark
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