From bf53de907dfdaac178c92d774aae7370d7b97d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Metzger Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:10:24 +0100 Subject: x86, bts: add fork and exit handling Impact: introduce new ptrace facility Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies); ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach. Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a traced task is forked. Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork. Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do that when the traced task dies. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/fork.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 7b93da72d4a..65ce60adc8e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1096,6 +1096,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES p->blocked_on = NULL; /* not blocked yet */ #endif + if (unlikely(ptrace_reparented(current))) + ptrace_fork(p, clone_flags); /* Perform scheduler related setup. Assign this task to a CPU. */ sched_fork(p, clone_flags); -- cgit v1.2.3