[PATCH] x86: ptrace debugreg checks rewrite

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Wed May 6 13:38:52 PDT 2009


> > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:16:01AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > +static int ptrace_check_debugreg(int _32bit,
> > > +				 unsigned long dr0, unsigned long dr1,
> > > +				 unsigned long dr2, unsigned long dr3,
> > > +				 unsigned long dr6, unsigned long dr7)
> > > +{
> > > +	/* Breakpoint type: 00: --x, 01: -w-, 10: undefined, 11: rw- */
> > > +	unsigned int rw[4];
> > > +	/* Breakpoint length: 00: 1 byte, 01: 2 bytes, 10: 8 bytes, 11: bytes */
> > 								        4 bytes, of course
> 
> Roland, Oleg, do you have any pending/planned changes in this area?

I don't.  I expect the only future work on this arch debugreg stuff to be
via the hw_breakpoint work, extending that and/or building new things on it.


Thanks,
Roland


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