linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET ptrace] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE/INTERRUPT and group stop notification, take#4

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:39:03 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	vda.linux@...glemail.com, jan.kratochvil@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, indan@....nu, bdonlan@...il.com,
	pedro@...esourcery.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET ptrace] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE/INTERRUPT and
 group stop notification, take#4

Hey,

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:42:11PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/30, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >
> > * PTRACE_LISTEN added.  This puts tracee into quasi-active state where
> >   wait(2) and sync ptrace requests fail and tracee is allowed to
> >   re-trap into STOP to notify an async event.
> 
> Nice!
> 
> Personally, I think the whole series is fine. So far I only read it
> inline (without applying). I'll try to read it carefully patch-by-patch,
> it is always good to try to re-check the details, but I do not expect
> I'll find something which should delay this series from merging into
> ptrace tree.

Yeah, yeah, PTRACE_LISTEN turned out to be pretty easy to implement.
I didn't really have to change too much.  I'll test different corner
cases (different thread doing waking/sleeping, race against INTERRUPT
kind of things) and let you know how it goes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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