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SubjectRe: [RFC Patch v1 33/55] ARC: ptrace support
On Monday 12 November 2012 07:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

The regset stuff is already complete - and even this code uses the reget
callbacks. It's just that we need to carry on this dual ABI for some
time for our legacy gdbserver.

>
> Arnd



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