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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ptrace.h | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h index 515bff053de8..6ab80714a916 100644 --- a/include/linux/ptrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h @@ -204,6 +204,41 @@ static inline void user_enable_block_step(struct task_struct *task) } #endif /* arch_has_block_step */ +#ifndef arch_ptrace_stop_needed +/** + * arch_ptrace_stop_needed - Decide whether arch_ptrace_stop() should be called + * @code: current->exit_code value ptrace will stop with + * @info: siginfo_t pointer (or %NULL) for signal ptrace will stop with + * + * This is called with the siglock held, to decide whether or not it's + * necessary to release the siglock and call arch_ptrace_stop() with the + * same @code and @info arguments. It can be defined to a constant if + * arch_ptrace_stop() is never required, or always is. On machines where + * this makes sense, it should be defined to a quick test to optimize out + * calling arch_ptrace_stop() when it would be superfluous. For example, + * if the thread has not been back to user mode since the last stop, the + * thread state might indicate that nothing needs to be done. + */ +#define arch_ptrace_stop_needed(code, info) (0) +#endif + +#ifndef arch_ptrace_stop +/** + * arch_ptrace_stop - Do machine-specific work before stopping for ptrace + * @code: current->exit_code value ptrace will stop with + * @info: siginfo_t pointer (or %NULL) for signal ptrace will stop with + * + * This is called with no locks held when arch_ptrace_stop_needed() has + * just returned nonzero. It is allowed to block, e.g. for user memory + * access. The arch can have machine-specific work to be done before + * ptrace stops. On ia64, register backing store gets written back to user + * memory here. Since this can be costly (requires dropping the siglock), + * we only do it when the arch requires it for this particular stop, as + * indicated by arch_ptrace_stop_needed(). + */ +#define arch_ptrace_stop(code, info) do { } while (0) +#endif + #endif #endif |