Re: [patch] s390: Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 05:19:19 EST


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The self referential PT_IEEE_IP ptrace peek & poke calls have been
> broken for that last 6 years. For peek the code always returns 0
> instead of the last ieee fault and for poke the code does nothing.
> Since nobody noticed the code seems to be superfluous. So lets
> remove it.

After this the switch to the generic sys_ptrace is trivial. Care to
submit a patch for that aswell?

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