Re: utrace regressions (was: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21)

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 16:37:39 EST


> We're aware of two regressions compared to mainline if ptrace is utrace:

Thanks very much for bringing these to my attention.

> 1) zero holes for PTRACE_PEEKUSR vanished.

I've fixed this in the current patches.

> 2. The following proggie renders box unusable in ~10 seconds (but not
> mainline kernel where Ctrl+C will kill process).

I haven't been able to reproduce this so far on my test machine. I got
bored after about 10 minutes ("passed: 119200000"). The machine remains
responsive and the test dies immediately on hitting C-c. I'll try it on
some other machines. It would help to know what kind of unusable (crashy,
leaky, wedgey?).


Thanks,
Roland
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