ptrace(2) ARM-specific details (request for patches)

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2016 - 12:00:05 EST


Hello Will, Catalin, (and others in the To:)

As I mentioned to you both at LPC, over time there have been
a number of ARM-specific additions to ptrace(2), and these
have not been documented yet. Would I be able to appeal to
you (and others in the To:) to send patches for these changes
(and future ptrace changes)?

The changes in question, for which I would be keen to receive
patches, are as follows:

PTRACE_GETWMMXREGS
PTRACE_SETWMMXREGS
ARM
Linux 2.6.12

PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL
ARM and ARM64
Linux 2.6.16
commit 3f471126ee53feb5e9b210ea2f525ed3bb9b7a7f
Author: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jan 14 19:30:04 2006 +0000

PTRACE_GETCRUNCHREGS
PTRACE_SETCRUNCHREGS
ARM
Linux 2.6.18
commit 3bec6ded282b331552587267d67a06ed7fd95ddd
Author: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 27 22:56:18 2006 +0100

PTRACE_GETVFPREGS
PTRACE_SETVFPREGS
ARM and ARM64
Linux 2.6.30
commit 3d1228ead618b88e8606015cbabc49019981805d
Author: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 11 13:12:56 2009 +0100

PTRACE_GETHBPREGS
PTRACE_SETHBPREGS
ARM and ARM64
Linux 2.6.37
commit 864232fa1a2f8dfe003438ef0851a56722740f3e
Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 3 10:42:55 2010 +0100

Cheers,

Michael

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