lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Apr]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: PTRACE_{READ,WRITE}{TEXT,DATA}
FromBenjamin Herrenschmidt <>
DateTue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:20 +1000
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 21:34 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:54:08 +1000
> 
> > I noticed kernel/ptrace.c has ptrace_readdata/writedata functions that
> > are only used by sparc and sparc64 which implements the ptrace requests
> > PTRACE_READ_DATA, PTRACE_WRITE_DATA (and _TEXT variants).
> > 
> > Any reason not to make everybody benefit from these and moving the sparc
> > implementation to the generic ptrace_request (&compat) ?
> > 
> > It's more efficient than read/writing one word at a time... I thought
> > about it in the light of some work Rik is doing to make
> > access_process_vm useable on video ram mappings done by the X server...
> 
> It's kind of pointless because what gdb does these days on Linux is
> use the procfs 'mem' file to directly read in parts of the inferior's
> address space.
> 
> See linux_proc_xfer_partial() in gdb/linux-nat.c=

Good point. That still uses access_process_vm() so Rik and I work
is still valid tho.

Thanks,
Ben.




\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-04-29 07:09    [W:2.982 / U:0.020 seconds]
©2003-2008 Jasper Spaans