linux-kernel - Re: Where did struct user_regs

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Message-ID: <20090325011402.GA15592@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:14:02 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where did struct user_regs_struct{,32} go?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:21:32AM +0100, Michael Riepe wrote:
> Am I supposed to roll my own
> when I want to ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS) the registers of a 32-bit process
> from 64-bit land?

Shouldn't the kernel convert the 32-bit registers into a 64-bit
user_regs_struct for GETREGS and convert them back for SETREGS?

				Jeff

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