uml: Commentary addition to recent SYSEMU fix.
PATCH 3/8 uml: Commentary addition to recent SYSEMU fix.
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[email protected]>
Add some comments about the "uml-sysemu-fixes" patch of 2.6.10-mm1 (merged in 2.6.11-rc1).
Signed-off-by Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[email protected]>
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linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/kernel/tt/tracer.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
arch/um/kernel/tt/tracer.c renamed from arch/um/kernel/tt/tracer.c~uml-comment-fix-sysemu-tt +14 -0
@@ -313,6 +313,15 @@ int tracer(int (*init_proc)(void *), voi sig =0 ; op =do_proc_op (task, proc_id);switch (op){ +/* +* This is called when entering user mode; after +* this, we start intercepting syscalls. +* +* In fact, a process is started in kernel mode, +* so with is_tracing() == 0 (and that is reset +* when executing syscalls, since UML kernel has +* the right to do syscalls); +*/ case OP_TRACE_ON :arch_leave_kernel (task, pid); tracing =1 ;
@@ -347,6 +356,11 @@ int tracer(int (*init_proc)(void *), voicontinue ; } tracing =0 ; +/* local_using_sysemu has been already set +* below, since if we are here, is_tracing() on +* the traced task was 1, i.e. the process had +* already run through one iteration of the +* loop which executed a OP_TRACE_ON request.*/ do_syscall (task, pid, local_using_sysemu); sig =SIGUSR2 ;break ;
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