Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:38:46 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/27] ptrace: arch_has_single_step |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:55:07 -0800 (PST) Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote: > > > This defines the new macro arch_has_single_step() in linux/ptrace.h, > > a default for when asm/ptrace.h does not define it. It declares the > > new user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step functions. > > This is not used yet, but paves the way to harmonize on this > > interface for the arch-specific calls on all machines. > > I think I'll duck this lot for now in view of the (relatively small) > amount of followup. > > I did do an experimental will-it-apply and got a tremendous number of > rejects against the x86 git tree, almost all of which went away when > `patch -l' was used. Seems that someone has gone on a whitespace > rampage through arch/x86/ia32/ptrace32.c and arch/x86/ia32/ptrace64.c. > > That's kinda/sorta OK, but `patch -l' is a bit more inclined to > misplace hunks and it's all a bit risky.
actually, Thomas tried a tentative merge two days ago or so and the result was pretty OK and functional. I'll try to do a more formal merge and see what comes up.
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