On 30 July 2014 17:00, James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This one fixes mips32 debian boot, but changes the layout of the > NT_PRSTATUS regset which is accessible through ptrace. I don't believe > this will break anything, but there are other patches pending in the > patchset to fix up the regset stuff properly anyway (as it is already > broken for core dumps) and I don't really want to take the risk without > Ralf's okay. > > Alex Smith (1): > MIPS: O32/32-bit: Fix bug which can cause incorrect system call > restarts Right now the NT_PRSTATUS regset can't be relied upon to return the same layout anyway, as it can differ depending on whether the kernel is 32- or 64-bit, as well as with a couple of other Kconfig options. Changing it in this patch shouldn't make things any worse. As you say other patches in the series properly fix the regset/core dump situation, though I suppose they aren't too critical for 3.16 as nobody seems to have noticed/cared that core dumps aren't working until now! Thanks, Alex
