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| author | Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl> | 2007-12-17 16:19:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-12-17 19:28:15 -0800 |
| commit | 4dbed85a35ed37d9608f4f32e5d69efa775d6223 (patch) | |
| tree | 67ab558db8ccaf8d706a25e5ce87b78be241cffb /arch/um/include | |
| parent | 5867a78f41f84e5388448da62c183255dc22601f (diff) | |
uml: stop gdb from deleting breakpoints when running UML
Sometimes when UML is debugged gdb miss breakpoints.
When process traced by gdb do fork, debugger remove breakpoints from
child address space. There is possibility to trace more than one fork,
but this not work with UML, I guess (only guess) there is a deadlock -
gdb waits for UML and UML waits for gdb.
When clone() is called with SIGCHLD and CLONE_VM flags, gdb see this
as PTRACE_EVENT_FORK not as PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE and remove breakpoints
from child and at the same time from traced process, because either
have the same address space.
Maybe it is possible to do fix in gdb, but I'm not sure if there is
easy way to find out if traced and child processes share memory. So I
do fix for UML, it simply do not call clone() with both SIGCHLD and
CLONE_VM flags together. Additionally __WALL flag is used for
waitpid() to assure not miss clone and normal process events.
[ jdike - checkpatch fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/include/os.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/include/os.h b/arch/um/include/os.h index fbf0a87c6eaa..6f0d1c741bca 100644 --- a/arch/um/include/os.h +++ b/arch/um/include/os.h @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ extern int execvp_noalloc(char *buf, const char *file, char *const argv[]); extern int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv); extern int run_helper_thread(int (*proc)(void *), void *arg, unsigned int flags, unsigned long *stack_out); -extern int helper_wait(int pid); +extern int helper_wait(int pid, int nohang, char *pname); /* tls.c */ |