Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:28:12 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Demultiplexing SIGTRAP signal |
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* Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008 20:24:04 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > > --- linux-2.6.27-rc7.orig/arch/ia64/include/asm/siginfo.h > > > +++ linux-2.6.27-rc7/arch/ia64/include/asm/siginfo.h > > > > please do not send patches that modify include/asm/ files, the > > include/asm-x86/ file should be modified instead. > > > > (this problem will go away in v2.6.28 when we'll move include/asm-x86/ > > to arch/x86/include/) > > > > Ingo, Sorry if I have confused you. [...]
hah, indeed - i mis-read them as include/asm/.
> Currently a SIGTRAP can denote any one of below reasons. > - Breakpoint hit > - H/W debug register hit > - Single step > - Signal sent through kill() or rasie() > > Architectures like powerpc/parisc provides infrastructure to > demultiplex SIGTRAP signal by passing down the information for > receiving SIGTRAP through si_code of siginfot_t structure. Here is an > attempt is generalise this infrastructure by extending it to x86 and > x86_64 archs.
applied to [the new topic] tip/core/signal, thanks Srinivasa! There are some other pending x86 signal changes already, so i based tip/core/signal on tip/x86/signal.
Roland, any opinion on this change?
Ingo
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