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authorStanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>2007-12-17 19:19:46 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-17 22:28:15 -0500
commit4dbed85a35ed37d9608f4f32e5d69efa775d6223 (patch)
tree67ab558db8ccaf8d706a25e5ce87b78be241cffb /arch/um/include
parent5867a78f41f84e5388448da62c183255dc22601f (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.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/include/os.h b/arch/um/include/os.h
index fbf0a87c6ea..6f0d1c741bc 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[]);
214extern int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv); 214extern int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv);
215extern int run_helper_thread(int (*proc)(void *), void *arg, 215extern int run_helper_thread(int (*proc)(void *), void *arg,
216 unsigned int flags, unsigned long *stack_out); 216 unsigned int flags, unsigned long *stack_out);
217extern int helper_wait(int pid); 217extern int helper_wait(int pid, int nohang, char *pname);
218 218
219 219
220/* tls.c */ 220/* tls.c */