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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2008-07-25 19:45:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 12:00:09 -0700
commit64b1208d5b0ef8859fd52ea7ae286a3eb994669b (patch)
treeebb92b717406dc104924c4ccdedf14357a62b84f /virt
parentb787f7ba677840da16a2228c16571ce8a1fcb799 (diff)
tracehook: TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
This adds tracehook.h inlines to enable a new arch feature in support of user debugging/tracing. This is not used yet, but it lays the groundwork for a debugger to be able to wrangle a task that's possibly running, without interrupting its syscalls in progress. Each arch should define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, and in their entry.S code treat it much like TIF_SIGPENDING. That is, it causes you to take the slow path when returning to user mode, where you get the full user-mode state accessible as for signal handling or ptrace. The arch code should check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME after handling TIF_SIGPENDING. When it's set, clear it and then call tracehook_notify_resume(). In future, tracing code will call set_notify_resume() when it wants to get a callback in tracehook_notify_resume(). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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