On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:55:29PM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote: > Hi, > > with Shaohua Li's patch we can get rid of much of the ugly code in > arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c: > > - find_thread_for_addr() is no longer needed > - most calls to ia64_poke() and ia64_peek() can be converted to > simple accesses to the VM > > This patch is incremental with Shaohua Li's fix, so it can't be applied > until we resolve the only remaining problem (race condition in > ptrace_stop). I'm only sending it to demonstrate the benefits of that > patch. Nice. With this you should also be able to switch to the generic sys_ptrace easily, could you add that to your patch? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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