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tracehook: TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
This adds tracehook.h inlines to enable a new arch feature in support of user debugging/tracing. This is not used yet, but it lays the groundwork for a debugger to be able to wrangle a task that's possibly running, without interrupting its syscalls in progress. Each arch should define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, and in their entry.S code treat it much like TIF_SIGPENDING. That is, it causes you to take the slow path when returning to user mode, where you get the full user-mode state accessible as for signal handling or ptrace. The arch code should check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME after handling TIF_SIGPENDING. When it's set, clear it and then call tracehook_notify_resume(). In future, tracing code will call set_notify_resume() when it wants to get a callback in tracehook_notify_resume(). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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include/linux/tracehook.h

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@@ -537,4 +537,38 @@ static inline void tracehook_report_death(struct task_struct *task,
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#ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
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/**
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* set_notify_resume - cause tracehook_notify_resume() to be called
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* @task: task that will call tracehook_notify_resume()
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*
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* Calling this arranges that @task will call tracehook_notify_resume()
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* before returning to user mode. If it's already running in user mode,
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* it will enter the kernel and call tracehook_notify_resume() soon.
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* If it's blocked, it will not be woken.
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*/
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static inline void set_notify_resume(struct task_struct *task)
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{
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if (!test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME))
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kick_process(task);
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}
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/**
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* tracehook_notify_resume - report when about to return to user mode
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* @regs: user-mode registers of @current task
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*
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* This is called when %TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME has been set. Now we are
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* about to return to user mode, and the user state in @regs can be
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* inspected or adjusted. The caller in arch code has cleared
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* %TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME before the call. If the flag gets set again
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* asynchronously, this will be called again before we return to
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* user mode.
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*
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* Called without locks.
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*/
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static inline void tracehook_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs)
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{
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}
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#endif /* TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME */
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#endif /* <linux/tracehook.h> */

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