linux-stable/include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
Andrey Vagin 84c751bd4a ptrace: add ability to retrieve signals without removing from a queue (v4)
This patch adds a new ptrace request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO.

This request is used to retrieve information about pending signals
starting with the specified sequence number.  Siginfo_t structures are
copied from the child into the buffer starting at "data".

The argument "addr" is a pointer to struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args.
struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args {
	u64 off;	/* from which siginfo to start */
	u32 flags;
	s32 nr;		/* how may siginfos to take */
};

"nr" has type "s32", because ptrace() returns "long", which has 32 bits on
i386 and a negative values is used for errors.

Currently here is only one flag PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED for dumping
signals from process-wide queue.  If this flag is not set, signals are
read from a per-thread queue.

The request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO returns a number of dumped signals.  If a
signal with the specified sequence number doesn't exist, ptrace returns
zero.  The request returns an error, if no signal has been dumped.

Errors:
EINVAL - one or more specified flags are not supported or nr is negative
EFAULT - buf or addr is outside your accessible address space.

A result siginfo contains a kernel part of si_code which usually striped,
but it's required for queuing the same siginfo back during restore of
pending signals.

This functionality is required for checkpointing pending signals.  Pedro
Alves suggested using it in "gdb" to peek at pending signals.  gdb already
uses PTRACE_GETSIGINFO to get the siginfo for the signal which was already
dequeued.  This functionality allows gdb to look at the pending signals
which were not reported yet.

The prototype of this code was developed by Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:05 -07:00

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#ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_PTRACE_H
#define _UAPI_LINUX_PTRACE_H
/* ptrace.h */
/* structs and defines to help the user use the ptrace system call. */
/* has the defines to get at the registers. */
#include <linux/types.h>
#define PTRACE_TRACEME 0
#define PTRACE_PEEKTEXT 1
#define PTRACE_PEEKDATA 2
#define PTRACE_PEEKUSR 3
#define PTRACE_POKETEXT 4
#define PTRACE_POKEDATA 5
#define PTRACE_POKEUSR 6
#define PTRACE_CONT 7
#define PTRACE_KILL 8
#define PTRACE_SINGLESTEP 9
#define PTRACE_ATTACH 16
#define PTRACE_DETACH 17
#define PTRACE_SYSCALL 24
/* 0x4200-0x4300 are reserved for architecture-independent additions. */
#define PTRACE_SETOPTIONS 0x4200
#define PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG 0x4201
#define PTRACE_GETSIGINFO 0x4202
#define PTRACE_SETSIGINFO 0x4203
/*
* Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets
* using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump).
* Please note that the NT_PRSTATUS note type in a core dump contains a full
* 'struct elf_prstatus'. But the user_regset for NT_PRSTATUS contains just the
* elf_gregset_t that is the pr_reg field of 'struct elf_prstatus'. For all the
* other user_regset flavors, the user_regset layout and the ELF core dump note
* payload are exactly the same layout.
*
* This interface usage is as follows:
* struct iovec iov = { buf, len};
*
* ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov);
*
* On the successful completion, iov.len will be updated by the kernel,
* specifying how much the kernel has written/read to/from the user's iov.buf.
*/
#define PTRACE_GETREGSET 0x4204
#define PTRACE_SETREGSET 0x4205
#define PTRACE_SEIZE 0x4206
#define PTRACE_INTERRUPT 0x4207
#define PTRACE_LISTEN 0x4208
#define PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO 0x4209
struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args {
__u64 off; /* from which siginfo to start */
__u32 flags;
__s32 nr; /* how may siginfos to take */
};
/* Read signals from a shared (process wide) queue */
#define PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED (1 << 0)
/* Wait extended result codes for the above trace options. */
#define PTRACE_EVENT_FORK 1
#define PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK 2
#define PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE 3
#define PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC 4
#define PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE 5
#define PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT 6
#define PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP 7
/* Extended result codes which enabled by means other than options. */
#define PTRACE_EVENT_STOP 128
/* Options set using PTRACE_SETOPTIONS or using PTRACE_SEIZE @data param */
#define PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD 1
#define PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_FORK)
#define PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK)
#define PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE)
#define PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC)
#define PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE)
#define PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)
#define PTRACE_O_TRACESECCOMP (1 << PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP)
/* eventless options */
#define PTRACE_O_EXITKILL (1 << 20)
#define PTRACE_O_MASK (0x000000ff | PTRACE_O_EXITKILL)
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_PTRACE_H */