quoted
If anyone ever reports that as a problem, I'll gladly fix it in the
kernel. That's doable without an ABI change. If rseq-like things
started breaking single-stepping, we can't just fix it in the kernel.
AFAIK nobody ever complained about it since we have vsyscalls and vDSOs.
Very true. And rseq does break both line-level and instruction-level
single-stepping.
They can just set a break point after it and continue.
In fact it could be even expressed to the debugger to do
that automatically based on some dwarf extension.
I also disagree that opv somehow "solves" debugging: it's a completely
different code path that has nothing to do with the original code path.
That's not debugging, that's at best a workaround. I don't think it's
any better than the break point method.
-Andi