Re: [PATCH] uprobes/core: handle breakpoint and signal stepexception.

From: Srikar Dronamraju
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 05:28:30 EST


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> [2012-03-13 06:47:44]:

>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > To make it available to uprobes please move is_ia32_task() to
> > processor.h and make it return 1 on i386 kernels. This should
> > be a very simple patch - and that's all that is needed.
>
> Side note: in general I don't mind making compat.h a bit more
> generic (at all), but is_ia32_task() is really a generic x86
> specific check that we can move to processor.h cleanly.
>
> Some other effort should make compat.h bitness agnostic -
> uprobes doesn't actually make use of the compat types and
> facilities there, and it resulted in a nonsensical change like
> making the alloc function generic ...
>

Okay, Will move is_ia32_task() to processor.h and use it.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar

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