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    arm64: ptrace: Add a comment describing our syscall entry/exit trap ABI · 59ee987e
    Will Deacon authored
    Our tracehook logic for syscall entry/exit raises a SIGTRAP back to the
    tracer following a ptrace request such as PTRACE_SYSCALL. As part of this
    procedure, we clobber the reported value of one of the tracee's general
    purpose registers (x7 for native tasks, r12 for compat) to indicate
    whether the stop occurred on syscall entry or exit. This is a slightly
    unfortunate ABI, as it prevents the tracer from accessing the real
    register value and is at odds with other similar stops such as seccomp
    traps.
    
    Since we're stuck with this ABI, expand the comment in our tracehook
    logic to acknowledge the issue and describe the behaviour in more detail.
    
    Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarKeno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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