On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:16:32 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/07, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> >
> > On Wed,  6 Jan 2010 13:08:12 -0800 (PST)
> > Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That's what tracehook_signal_handler is for.  You're both doing it 
> > > yourself
> > > in the arch code (by setting TIF_SINGLE_STEP), and then telling the 
> > > generic
> > > code to do it (by passing stepping=1 to tracehook_signal_handler).
> >
> > Ok, so with the full utrace the semantics of tracehook_signal_handler
> > is more than just causing a SIGTRAP. It is an indication for a signal
> > AND a SIGTRAP if single-stepping is active. To make both cases work we
> > should stop setting TIF_SINGLE_STEP in do_signal and pass
> > current->thread.per_info.single_step to tracehook_signal_handler
> > instead of test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLE_STEP).
> 
> Can't understand why do we need TIF_SINGLE_STEP at all.
> 
> Just pass current->thread.per_info.single_step to
> tracehook_signal_handler() ?
> 
> Oleg.
> 
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -504,14 +504,8 @@ void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs)
>                        * for a normal instruction, act like we took
>                        * one for the handler setup.
>                        */
> -                     if (current->thread.per_info.single_step)
> -                             set_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLE_STEP);
> -
> -                     /*
> -                      * Let tracing know that we've done the handler setup.
> -                      */
>                       tracehook_signal_handler(signr, &info, &ka, regs,
> -                                      test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLE_STEP));
> +                                      current->thread.per_info.single_step);
>               }
>               return;
>       }
> 

That is what I meant in the other mail. The patch on my local disk
looks almost the same but it removes the comment prior to the
TIF_SINGLE_STEP if statement as well.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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