linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement new PTRACE_EVENT_SYSCALL

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:12:57 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tromey@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement new PTRACE_EVENT_SYSCALL_{ENTER,EXIT}

On 01/07, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 07 2014, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > Finally. If we add this feature, we should probably also report
> > is_compat_task() somehow. Currently the debugger can't know if, say,
> > a 64bit tracee does int80.
>
> OK, I will look into it, have no idea how to do that.  Suggestions are
> welcome, of course.

Well, you can probably encode is_compat_task() in ->ptrace_message along
with syscall_get_nr(). But I am not sure about __X32_SYSCALL_BIT in
->orig_ax. Probably we should not clear it and report both bits.

Oleg.q

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