Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 11/17] ptrace: Allow compat to use the native siginfo | Date | Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:53:54 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 03 November 2015 02:30:40 Yury Norov wrote: > From: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> > > Set COMPAT_USE_NATIVE_SIGINFO to be true for non AARCH32 tasks. > > With ARM64 ILP32 ABI, we want to use the non-compat > siginfo as we want to simplify signal handling for this new ABI. > This patch just adds a new define COMPAT_USE_NATIVE_SIGINFO and > if it is true then read/write in the compat case as it was the > non-compat case.
Why does this use compat_ptrace_request()? I assume there is a good reason for it, but I'm surprised you don't use the native 64-bit ptrace syscall.
Arnd
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