Re: Current utrace breaks UML

[Jeff Dike]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:35:13PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Oops!  I overlooked the need to preserve the orig_eax value, though its
> necessity is obvious.  This makes me wonder about those previous
> reports that UML was working OK.

The one from me was on x86_64, where PTRACE_SYSEMU isn't an issue yet.

> I've fixed this in the latest utrace patch set.  I also wired up
> sysemu on x86_64.  This means 32-bit processes calling ptrace now
> support it for full compatibility with native i386, which the vanilla
> kernel does not.  It also means it works for 64-bit ptrace calls,
> whether operating on a 64-bit or a 32-bit target process.

Beautiful!

				Jeff

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