Q: drop PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL?
Denys Vlasenko
dvlasenk at redhat.com
Tue Jul 10 14:36:18 UTC 2012
On 07/10/2012 01:01 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> It's in linux-next git:
>>
>> commit fe948360bf475b705c021fc9ba8ee3992c5d0d67
>> Author: Denys Vlasenko<vda.linux at googlemail.com>
>> Date: Tue Mar 6 11:25:31 2012 +1100
>>
>> ptrace: remove PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL bit
>>
>> PTRACE_SEIZE code is tested and ready for production use, remove the code
>> which requires special bit in data argument to make PTRACE_SEIZE work.
>>
>> Strace team prepares for a new release of strace, and we would like to
>> ship the code which uses PTRACE_SEIZE, preferably after this change goes
>> into released kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko<vda.linux at googlemail.com>
>> Acked-by: Tejun Heo<tj at kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov<oleg at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Pedro Alves<palves at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Jan Kratochvil<jan.kratochvil at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton<akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>>
>> Looks like this change will go into linux-3.4
>
> I suppose we can safely drop PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL from USE_SEIZE code now.
I'm going to do that. Also will drop PTRACE_EVENT_STOP1
and enable USE_SEIZE in defs.h
--
vda
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