On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 15:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 13:59, 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 <asm/ptrace.h> 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. > > i have local code in the Blackfin tree that does part of this patch > (and has been tested), so i'll split this patch apart and merge into > my tree. thanks! i added tracehook support to Blackfin recently, so that covered all the new functions here. i just had to drop the handling of the PTRACE_xxx things that common code already does. when did you want to push through these updates ? i was planning on sending these ptrace() updates through the Blackfin tree as part of my 2.6.34 queue. i'm guessing you didnt want this stuff in 2.6.33 ... -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html