Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:00:47 +0000 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ptrace: add generic SET_SYSCALL request |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:46:01AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On 11/07/2014 11:04 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > To me the fact that PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL can be undefined and syscall_set_nr() > > is very much arch-dependant (but most probably trivial) means that this code > > should live in arch_ptrace(). > > Thinking of Oleg's comment above, it doesn't make sense neither to define generic > NT_SYSTEM_CALL (user_regset) in uapi/linux/elf.h and implement it in ptrace_regset() > in kernel/ptrace.c with arch-defined syscall_(g)set_nr(). > > Since we should have the same interface on arm and arm64, we'd better implement > ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL) locally on arm64 for now (as I originally submitted).
I think the regset approach is cleaner. We already do something similar for TLS. That would be implemented under arch/arm64/ with it's own NT type.
Will
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