[IA64] access user RBS directly
authorPetr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:41:18 +0000 (22:41 +0100)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:47:31 +0000 (15:47 -0800)
Because the user RBS of a process is now completely stored in
user-mode when the process is ptrace-stopped, accesses to the
RBS should no longer augment any part of the kernel RBS.

This means we can get rid of most ia64_peek() and ia64_poke()
calls.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c

index 331d6768b5d50f7257cb6c389929fdfb989800c9..9d2591423eb7dd0ae987aa5a3529e66ece4549e5 100644 (file)
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ static int
 access_uarea (struct task_struct *child, unsigned long addr,
              unsigned long *data, int write_access)
 {
-       unsigned long *ptr, regnum, urbs_end, rnat_addr, cfm;
+       unsigned long *ptr, regnum, urbs_end, cfm;
        struct switch_stack *sw;
        struct pt_regs *pt;
 #      define pt_reg_addr(pt, reg)     ((void *)                           \
@@ -1093,16 +1093,8 @@ access_uarea (struct task_struct *child, unsigned long addr,
                        return 0;
 
                      case PT_AR_RNAT:
-                       urbs_end = ia64_get_user_rbs_end(child, pt, NULL);
-                       rnat_addr = (long) ia64_rse_rnat_addr((long *)
-                                                             urbs_end);
-                       if (write_access)
-                               return ia64_poke(child, sw, urbs_end,
-                                                rnat_addr, *data);
-                       else
-                               return ia64_peek(child, sw, urbs_end,
-                                                rnat_addr, data);
-
+                       ptr = pt_reg_addr(pt, ar_rnat);
+                       break;
                      case PT_R1:
                        ptr = pt_reg_addr(pt, r1);
                        break;
@@ -1541,11 +1533,10 @@ asmlinkage long
 sys_ptrace (long request, pid_t pid, unsigned long addr, unsigned long data)
 {
        struct pt_regs *pt;
-       unsigned long urbs_end, peek_or_poke;
+       unsigned long peek_or_poke;
        struct task_struct *child;
        struct switch_stack *sw;
        long ret;
-       struct unw_frame_info info;
 
        lock_kernel();
        ret = -EPERM;
@@ -1593,26 +1584,19 @@ sys_ptrace (long request, pid_t pid, unsigned long addr, unsigned long data)
              case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT:
              case PTRACE_PEEKDATA:
                /* read word at location addr */
-               urbs_end = ia64_get_user_rbs_end(child, pt, NULL);
-               ret = ia64_peek(child, sw, urbs_end, addr, &data);
-               if (ret == 0) {
-                       ret = data;
-                       /* ensure "ret" is not mistaken as an error code: */
-                       force_successful_syscall_return();
+               if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data), 0)
+                   != sizeof(data)) {
+                       ret = -EIO;
+                       goto out_tsk;
                }
+               ret = data;
+               /* ensure "ret" is not mistaken as an error code */
+               force_successful_syscall_return();
                goto out_tsk;
 
-             case PTRACE_POKETEXT:
-             case PTRACE_POKEDATA:
-               /* write the word at location addr */
-               urbs_end = ia64_get_user_rbs_end(child, pt, NULL);
-               ret = ia64_poke(child, sw, urbs_end, addr, data);
-
-               /* Make sure user RBS has the latest data */
-               unw_init_from_blocked_task(&info, child);
-               do_sync_rbs(&info, ia64_sync_user_rbs);
-
-               goto out_tsk;
+       /* PTRACE_POKETEXT and PTRACE_POKEDATA is handled
+        * by the generic ptrace_request().
+        */
 
              case PTRACE_PEEKUSR:
                /* read the word at addr in the USER area */