Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753878AbYCTHkg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:40:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754204AbYCTHkP (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:40:15 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41745 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753481AbYCTHkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:40:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:40:05 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , David Miller , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Richard Henderson , tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] ptrace: arch_ptrace -ENOSYS return Message-ID: <20080320074005.GB19969@infradead.org> References: <20080319211714.8B14226F995@magilla.localdomain> <20080319212024.EA03126F995@magilla.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 30 On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:40:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And I have to say, I really hate that > > ret = arch_ptrace(child, request, addr, data); > if (ret == -ENOSYS && !forced_successful_syscall_return()) > ret = ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data); > > thing. Instead of doing it that ugly way (return value and a special > per-arch forced_successful_syscall_return() thing), this really smells > like you just want to change the calling conventions for "arch_ptrace()" > instead. > > Wouldn't it be nicer to just let "arch_ptrace()" return a flag saying > whether it handled things or not? I think the easiest and cleanest would be to just drop this whole series. There's no inherent advantage of ret = -ENOSYS; in the arch_ptrace default case over ret = ptrace_request(...); -- 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/