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SubjectRe: [RFC Patch v1 33/55] ARC: ptrace support
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On Monday 12 November 2012, Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com wrote:
> + case PTRACE_PEEKUSR:
> + pos = addr; /* offset in struct user_regs_struct */
> + count = 4; /* 1 register only */
> + u_addr = (unsigned int __user *)data;
> + kbuf = NULL;
> + ret = genregs_get(child, NULL, pos, count, kbuf, u_addr);
> + break;
> +
> + case PTRACE_POKEUSR:
> + pos = addr; /* offset in struct user_regs_struct */
> + count = 4; /* 1 register only */
> +
> + /* Ideally @data would have abeen a user space buffer, from
> + * where, we do a copy_from_user.
> + * However this request only involves one word, which courtesy
> + * our ABI can be passed in a reg.
> + * regset interface however expects some buffer to copyin from
> + */
> + kbuf = &data;
> + u_addr = NULL;
> +
> + ret = genregs_set(child, NULL, pos, count, kbuf, u_addr);
> + break;
> +

I think these should be moved into regsets, as we have done for all
other new architectures. Your arch_ptrace then becomes a trivial wrapper
around ptrace_request.

Arnd


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