linux-kernel - Re: linux-next requirements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE

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Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:54:43 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hjl.tools@...il.com,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Subject: Re: linux-next requirements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add
 support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET)

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:49:42 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/23/2010 12:20 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >> Are there any downsides to Roland's patch as far as PARISC is concerned
> >> (apart from the loss of some functionality, of course)?
> > 
> > Kyle ACK'd my parisc patch, and my impression is he wants it to go in
> > and does not plan to work on the necessary arch support imminently.
> > 
> > I think the only visible effect of turning off HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
> > on parisc will be that /proc/pid/syscall is not available.
> 
> Added to tip:x86/ptrace.

And Linus actually put it in his tree yesterday ... commit
15cbf627abcd93c3c668d5a92d58d9fec8f953dd "Revert "parisc:
HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK""

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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