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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:51:41 -0800
From:      Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net>
To:        Neelkanth Natu <neelnatu@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mips ptrace.S fix
Message-ID:  <E3996838-99C9-476B-B962-ED19C06EB9FC@lakerest.net>
In-Reply-To: <296949.49663.qm@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Neel:

Good point..

I will fix these in head since I pushed his patch in ;-)

R
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Neelkanth Natu wrote:

> Hi JC,
>
> Your patch looks good. I have a few comments though. See inline:
>
> Index: lib/libc/mips/sys/ptrace.S
> ===================================================================
> --- lib/libc/mips/sys/ptrace.S	(revision 203379)
> +++ lib/libc/mips/sys/ptrace.S	(working copy)
> @@ -42,14 +42,26 @@
> #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
>
> LEAF(ptrace)
> +	.frame	sp,40,ra
>
>>> space missing after the ','
>
> +	.mask	0x80000000, -8
> #ifdef __ABICALLS__
> 	.set    noreorder
> 	.cpload t9
> 	.set    reorder
> #endif
> +	subu	sp, sp, 40
> +	sw	ra,  32(sp)
> +#ifdef __ABICALLS__
> +	.cprestore 16
> +#endif
> 	la	t9, _C_LABEL(__error)	# locate address of errno
> -	jalr	t9
> +	jalr	t9	
>
>>> this change is not required - the newly added line has a tab at  
>>> the end.
>
> +#ifdef __ABICALLS__
> +	lw	gp, 16(sp)
> +#endif
>
>>> this is redundant - the assembler will generate exactly the same  
>>> line of
>>> code due to the .cprestore directive above.
>
> 	sw	zero, 0(v0)
> +	lw	ra, 32(sp)
> +	addu	sp, sp, 40
> 	li	v0, SYS_ptrace
> 	syscall
> 	bne	a3, zero, 1f
>
> best
> Neel
>
> --- On Wed, 2/3/10, C. Jayachandran <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: C. Jayachandran <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: mips ptrace.S fix
>> To: "Rui Paulo" <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
>> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
>> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 2:27 AM
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Rui
>> Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On 3 Feb 2010, at 03:06, C. Jayachandran wrote:
>>>
>>>> The ptrace system call implementation seems to
>> have a bug, we need to
>>>> save ra and gp before calling the __error, and
>> that will need a stack
>>>> frame.
>>>>
>>>> I've attached a patch that should fix this for o32
>> ABI - but it really
>>>> should be written with ABI-independent macros, any
>> clue on how to do
>>>> this which will take care of n32/64 too will be
>> helpful.
>>>>
>>>> I also have some initial patches for making gdb
>> work on MIPS. . That
>>>> patch is also attached, but it is work in
>> progress, only the static
>>>> executables work now.
>>>
>>> I think you forgot the attachments or they were
>> stripped out.
>>
>> I think the attachments were stripped out, may be by the
>> mailing list
>> itself.  I had them as attachments since I was worried
>> that gmail will
>> damage white-space if I did it inline.
>>
>> Is there a standard way of submitting patches to the list?
>> For now I
>> have the patches at:
>> http://sites.google.com/site/cjayachandran/files (the
>> files are
>> ptrace.S.patch and gdb.patch)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JC.
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