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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:34:16 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 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 Strange, changing access_process_vm on Fedora 9 made gdb able to see video memory that the X server had mmapped. Are you sure gdb behaves as you suggest? On x86 my patch seems to work as I expected... -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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