Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] s390: Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack. | From | Martin Schwidefsky <> | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:33:05 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 05:19 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> > > > > The self referential PT_IEEE_IP ptrace peek & poke calls have been > > broken for that last 6 years. For peek the code always returns 0 > > instead of the last ieee fault and for poke the code does nothing. > > Since nobody noticed the code seems to be superfluous. So lets > > remove it. > > After this the switch to the generic sys_ptrace is trivial. Care to > submit a patch for that aswell?
True, that makes sense. I'll do that right after lunch.
-- blue skies, Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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