On Monday 12 November 2012, Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com wrote:

+       case PTRACE_PEEKUSR:
+               pos = addr;     /* offset in struct user_regs_struct */
+               count = 4;      /* 1 register only */
+               u_addr = (unsigned int __user *)data;
+               kbuf = NULL;
+               ret = genregs_get(child, NULL, pos, count, kbuf, u_addr);
+               break;
+
+       case PTRACE_POKEUSR:
+               pos = addr;     /* offset in struct user_regs_struct */
+               count = 4;      /* 1 register only */
+
+               /* Ideally @data would have abeen a user space buffer, from
+                * where, we do a copy_from_user.
+                * However this request only involves one word, which courtesy
+                * our ABI can be passed in a reg.
+                * regset interface however expects some buffer to copyin from
+                */
+               kbuf = &data;
+               u_addr = NULL;
+
+               ret = genregs_set(child, NULL, pos, count, kbuf, u_addr);
+               break;
+

I think these should be moved into regsets, as we have done for all
other new architectures. Your arch_ptrace then becomes a trivial wrapper
around ptrace_request.

	Arnd