[PATCH 3/9] ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Apr 27 00:10:47 PDT 2022
On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 17:52 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> User mode linux is the last user of the PT_DTRACE flag. Using the flag to indicate
> single stepping is a little confusing and worse changing tsk->ptrace without locking
> could potentionally cause problems.
>
> So use a thread info flag with a better name instead of flag in tsk->ptrace.
>
> Remove the definition PT_DTRACE as uml is the last user.
Looks fine to me.
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
Looking at pending patches, I don't see any conflicts from this. I'm
guessing anyway you'll want/need to take these through some tree all
together.
johannes
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