[PATCH 11/14] alpha: use generic ptrace memory writes

From: Magnus Lindholm

Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 16:55:51 EST


Let ptrace_request() handle PTRACE_POKETEXT and PTRACE_POKEDATA,
removing the duplicate calls to generic_ptrace_pokedata(). Keep Alpha's
PEEK handlers for its direct-return syscall convention.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
index 4f857d5cbb1410961a78e4ef36cce4561a7ea7af..18860066156ae7fe5a062095fd2641c4ed0c77de 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -489,12 +489,6 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,

force_successful_syscall_return();
break;
- /* When I and D space are separate, this will have to be fixed. */
- case PTRACE_POKETEXT: /* write the word at location addr. */
- case PTRACE_POKEDATA:
- ret = generic_ptrace_pokedata(child, addr, data);
- break;
-
case PTRACE_POKEUSR: /* write the specified register */
DBG(DBG_MEM, ("poke $%lu<-%#lx\n", addr, data));
ret = put_reg(child, addr, data);
--
2.43.0