Re: linux-next requirements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Addsupport for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET)

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Feb 23 2010 - 17:54:56 EST


On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:49:42 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 02/23/2010 12:20 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >> Are there any downsides to Roland's patch as far as PARISC is concerned
> >> (apart from the loss of some functionality, of course)?
> >
> > Kyle ACK'd my parisc patch, and my impression is he wants it to go in
> > and does not plan to work on the necessary arch support imminently.
> >
> > I think the only visible effect of turning off HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
> > on parisc will be that /proc/pid/syscall is not available.
>
> Added to tip:x86/ptrace.

And Linus actually put it in his tree yesterday ... commit
15cbf627abcd93c3c668d5a92d58d9fec8f953dd "Revert "parisc:
HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK""

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Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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