[PATCH v4] powerpc/ptrace: replace ptrace_report_syscall() with a tracehook call

Oleg Nesterov oleg at redhat.com
Sat Dec 8 03:34:10 AEDT 2018


On 12/07, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:12:49PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> > > Sorry, this patch does not work, please ignore it.
> >
> > Hmm OK. Why exactly?
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea why it doesn't work.
> All I can say is it breaks strace because the kernel no longer sends
> syscall entry stops.

May be because TIF_SYSCALL_EMU/etc is a bit number, not a mask? IOW, rather
than

	whatever & TIF_XXX

you should do

	whatever & _TIF_XXX

intstead?

Oleg.



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