On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:24:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
> >
> > We could drop that information in a metaregister. ?It's not backward
> > compatible, but at least it will be obvious when that information is
> > available and not.
>
> Well, seriously, UML already looks at the word at "ip-2" for other
> reasons. So it isn't like there is any point in adding more support to
> just give you that information in another form.
That is done only for task singlestepped in the guest:
/*
* This closes a way to execute a system call on the host. If
* you set a breakpoint on a system call instruction and singlestep
* from it, the tracing thread used to PTRACE_SINGLESTEP the process
* rather than PTRACE_SYSCALL it, allowing the system call to execute
* on the host. The tracing thread will check this flag and
* PTRACE_SYSCALL if necessary.
*/
if (current->ptrace & PT_DTRACE)
current->thread.singlestep_syscall =
is_syscall(PT_REGS_IP(¤t->thread.regs));
with PT_DTRACE set by uml user_enable_single_step()
And it's not cheap - doing that on each syscall will be unpleasant...
Frankly, I'd rather stopped telling the uml userland about vdso in such
setups. And anything that plays with SYSCALL outside of vdso... <shrug>
we already have a "don't run it native on 32bit", adding "don't run
it on 32bit uml on amd64 host" is not too serious. At least for now...
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