kernel/include/linux/tracehook.h, branch linux-2.6.28.y

tracehook: comment pasto fixes

2008-09-05T21:39:38Z

Fix some pasto's in comments in the new linux/tracehook.h and asm-generic/syscall.h files. Reported-by: Wenji Huang Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: fix CLONE_PTRACE

2008-08-08T00:18:47Z

In the change in commit 09a05394fe2448a4139b014936330af23fa7ec83, I overlooked two nits in the logic and this broke using CLONE_PTRACE when PTRACE_O_TRACE* are not being used. A parent that is itself traced at all but not using PTRACE_O_TRACE*, using CLONE_PTRACE would have its new child fail to be traced. A parent that is not itself traced at all that uses CLONE_PTRACE (which should be a no-op in this case) would confuse the bookkeeping and lead to a crash at exit time. This restores the missing checks and fixes both failure modes. Reported-by: Eduardo Habkost Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath

tracehook: kerneldoc fix

2008-08-05T00:23:43Z

My last change to tracehook.h made it confuse the kerneldoc parser. Move the #define's before the comment so it's happy again. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: fix exit_signal=0 case

2008-08-01T19:01:11Z

My commit 2b2a1ff64afbadac842bbc58c5166962cf4f7664 introduced a regression (sorry about that) for the odd case of exit_signal=0 (e.g. clone_flags=0). This is not a normal use, but it's used by a case in the glibc test suite. Dying with exit_signal=0 sends no signal, but it's supposed to wake up a parent's blocked wait*() calls (unlike the delayed_group_leader case). This fixes tracehook_notify_death() and its caller to distinguish a "signal 0" wakeup from the delayed_group_leader case (with no wakeup). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Tested-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: comment fixes

2008-07-26T21:41:26Z

This fixes some typos and errors in comments. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath

tracehook: asm/syscall.h

2008-07-26T19:00:09Z

This adds asm-generic/syscall.h, which documents what a real asm-ARCH/syscall.h file should define. This is not used yet, but will provide all the machine-dependent details of examining a user system call about to begin, in progress, or just ended. Each arch should add an asm-ARCH/syscall.h that defines all the entry points documented in asm-generic/syscall.h, as short inlines if possible. This lets us write new tracing code that understands user system call registers, without any new arch-specific work. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME

2008-07-26T19:00:09Z

This adds tracehook.h inlines to enable a new arch feature in support of user debugging/tracing. This is not used yet, but it lays the groundwork for a debugger to be able to wrangle a task that's possibly running, without interrupting its syscalls in progress. Each arch should define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, and in their entry.S code treat it much like TIF_SIGPENDING. That is, it causes you to take the slow path when returning to user mode, where you get the full user-mode state accessible as for signal handling or ptrace. The arch code should check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME after handling TIF_SIGPENDING. When it's set, clear it and then call tracehook_notify_resume(). In future, tracing code will call set_notify_resume() when it wants to get a callback in tracehook_notify_resume(). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: force signal_pending()

2008-07-26T19:00:09Z

This defines a new hook tracehook_force_sigpending() that lets tracing code decide to force TIF_SIGPENDING on in recalc_sigpending(). This is not used yet, so it compiles away to nothing for now. It lays the groundwork for new tracing code that can interrupt a task synthetically without actually sending a signal. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: death

2008-07-26T19:00:09Z

This moves the ptrace logic in task death (exit_notify) into tracehook.h inlines. Some code is rearranged slightly to make things nicer. There is no change, only cleanup. There is one hook called with the tasklist_lock write-locked, as ptrace needs. There is also a new hook called after exit_state changes and without locks. This is a better place for tracing work to be in the future, since it doesn't delay the whole system with locking. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracehook: job control

2008-07-26T19:00:09Z

This defines the tracehook_notify_jctl() hook to formalize the ptrace effects on the job control notifications. There is no change, only cleanup. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds