ARC: Implement ptrace(PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA)

This patch adds implementation of GET_THREAD_AREA ptrace request type. This
is required by GDB to debug NPTL applications.

Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 5d76706139dd..13b3ffb27a38 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
         pr_debug("REQ=%ld: ADDR =0x%lx, DATA=0x%lx)\n", request, addr, data);
 
         switch (request) {
+        case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA:
+                ret = put_user(task_thread_info(child)->thr_ptr,
+                               (unsigned long __user *)data);
+                break;
         default:
                 ret = ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
                 break;