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authorAnton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>2014-06-20 20:28:39 +0400
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2014-06-26 10:14:08 +0530
commita4b6cb735b25aa84a462a1985e3e43bebaf5beb4 (patch)
tree5ff43d74e50b62fa401e79fa0cbf0715195907f5 /arch/arc/kernel
parentbef444a33004f4062930df1fc703a25dd6d7b460 (diff)
downloadlinux-a4b6cb735b25aa84a462a1985e3e43bebaf5beb4.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c4
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;