Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753692AbYCJTU3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:20:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751134AbYCJTUU (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:20:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45598 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751011AbYCJTUT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:20:19 -0400 Message-ID: <47D589B9.1080109@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:19:21 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20071019) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland McGrath CC: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 ptrace orig_ax on ia32 task References: <20080229035707.EAE862700FD@magilla.localdomain> <20080307225602.6491B26F990@magilla.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20080307225602.6491B26F990@magilla.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 647 Lines: 16 On 03/07/2008 05:56 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: > This makes 64-bit ptrace calls setting the 64-bit orig_ax field > for a 32-bit task sign-extend the low 32 bits up to 64. This > matches what a 64-bit debugger expects when tracing a 32-bit task. > > This follows on my "x86_64 ia32 syscall restart fix". > This didn't matter until that was fixed. > That original patch is still unmerged as of -rc5. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/