Re: [PATCH] x86: make PTRACE_GETREGSET return 32-bit regs if 64-bitprocess entered kernel with int 80

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/14/2013 07:00 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Determining personality of a ptraced process is a murky area.
> > On x86, for years strace was looking at segment selectors,
> > which is conceptually wrong: see, for example,
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/320

One proposal that keeps being on the table is to export a regset with 
metadatam, including process mode at launch (i386, x86-64, x32).

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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