Re: Bug: ptrace issues under x86_64 Xen kernel 2.6.29

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Bryan Donlan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Bryan Donlan wrote:
> >     
> > > Using 2.6.29 or 2.6.28 as a 64-bit Xen domU, a number of ptrace()
> > > users seem to have issues with unexpected breakpoints. ltrace and gdb
> > > both seem to be affected, under both 64-bit and 32-bit userspace.
> > > 32-bit kernels do not seem to be affected. Typical symptoms look like:
> > >
> > >       
> > It looks like this is because the kernel sets up int3 (breakpoint) and debug
> > (watchpoints, etc) to be on a separate debug stack in the tss.  Xen doesn't
> > do this (and doesn't appear to have a mechanism to do so), so I guess the
> > on-stack format isn't what the kernel expects.  Does the patch below work?
> >     
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late reply; this message never made it to my inbox for
> some reason...
> I did try the patch, and saw similar results to Mark; ptrace works,
> but lots of warnings:
>   

Thanks.  Those warnings are harmless, but I have an updated version of 
the fix to suppress them in xen-tip/next.

   J
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