Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753606Ab0BCDoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:44:17 -0500 Received: from relay.atmel.no ([80.232.32.139]:53938 "EHLO relay.atmel.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751772Ab0BCDoP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:44:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1519 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:44:15 EST Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:47:37 +0530 From: Haavard Skinnemoen To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: roland@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/14] avr32: use generic ptrace_resume code Message-ID: <20100203084737.6e01247b@siona> In-Reply-To: <20100202185857.GD3630@lst.de> References: <20100202185755.GA3630@lst.de> <20100202185857.GD3630@lst.de> Organization: Atmel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 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: 1312 Lines: 32 On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:58:57 +0100 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Use the generic ptrace_resume code for PTRACE_SYSCALL, PTRACE_CONT, > PTRACE_KILL and PTRACE_SINGLESTEP. This implies defining > arch_has_single_step in and implementing the > user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step functions, which > also causes the breakpoint information to be cleared on fork, which > could be considered a bug fix. > > Also the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE thread flag is now cleared on PTRACE_KILL > which it previously wasn't which is consistent with all architectures > using the modern ptrace code. > > Currently avr32 doesn't implement any code to disable single stepping > when one of the non-syscall requests is called which seems wrong, > but I've left it as-is for now. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen Sounds like you found three bugs and fixed two of them. Can you tell me more about the last one, i.e. what should be done to disable single-stepping? Haavard -- 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/