Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:10:41 +0900
From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
       uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: unify FDPIC implementations
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:30:29PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The Blackfin/FRV/SuperH guys all have the same exact FDPIC ptrace code in
> their arch handlers (since they were probably copied & pasted).  Since
> these ptrace interfaces are an arch independent aspect of the FDPIC code,
> unify them in the common ptrace code so new FDPIC ports don't need to copy
> and paste this fundamental stuff yet again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Just to follow up on this, this code obviously expects consistent entries
in mm_context_t. Presently include/asm-generic/mmu.h is aimed at nommu,
so it would probably be worthwhile stubbing in the FDPIC loadmap entries
there to make things easier for future ports.
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