Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2013-05-16
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[PATCH 0/2 v2] powerpc: Make ptrace work reliably

From: Bharat Bhushan <hidden>
Date: 2013-05-16 05:30:19

From: Bharat Bhushan <redacted>

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Bharat Bhushan (2):
  powerpc: debug control and status registers are 32bit
=> This patch makes debug control and status registers as 32bit as they are.
   This does not fix anything

  powerpc: restore dbcr0 on user space exit
=> This patch fixes the ptrace reliability issue. The description is the patch
   describes one of the case where it does not work reliably

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h |    8 ++++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c    |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S       |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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