Re: [PATCH 4/14] avr32: use generic ptrace_resume code

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Feb 03 2010 - 03:36:47 EST


On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:47:37AM +0530, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Sounds like you found three bugs and fixed two of them. Can you tell me
> more about the last one, i.e. what should be done to disable
> single-stepping?

I don't think the flag clearing on PTRACE_KILL matters as the process
is a zombie and almost gone anyway, it's more an artefact of the
generic implementation that I wanted to mention.

It seems like avr32 implement single stepping by setting the
TIF_SINGLE_STEP and TIF_BREAKPOINT thread flags. Simply clearing these
flags in user_disable_single_step and calling that function from
ptrace_disable (which currently clears them itself) should take care
of it.
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