Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:12:00 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH consolidate sys_ptrace |
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:12:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:09:00AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > [Let's try again now that sys_ptrace returns long everywhere mainline..] > > > > The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch > > statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most > > architectures. This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the > > arch-specific code as arch_ptrace. > > > > Some architectures have a too different ptrace so we have to exclude > > them. They continue to keep their implementations. For sh64 I had to > > add a sh64_ptrace wrapper because it does some initialization on the > > first call. For um I removed an ifdefed SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL block, > > but SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL isn't defined anywhere in the tree. > > Umm, it might be a good idea to actually send the current patch instead > of the old one. I really should write this text from scratch instead > of copying it :) > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thanks Christoph.
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