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.
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| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | /* has the defines to get at the registers. */ | 6 | /* has the defines to get at the registers. */ |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | #include <linux/types.h> | ||
| 8 | 9 | ||
| 9 | #define PTRACE_TRACEME 0 | 10 | #define PTRACE_TRACEME 0 |
| 10 | #define PTRACE_PEEKTEXT 1 | 11 | #define PTRACE_PEEKTEXT 1 |
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| 52 | #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT 0x4207 | 53 | #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT 0x4207 |
| 53 | #define PTRACE_LISTEN 0x4208 | 54 | #define PTRACE_LISTEN 0x4208 |
| 54 | 55 | ||
| 56 | #define PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO 0x4209 | ||
| 57 | |||
| 58 | struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args { | ||
| 59 | __u64 off; /* from which siginfo to start */ | ||
| 60 | __u32 flags; | ||
| 61 | __s32 nr; /* how may siginfos to take */ | ||
| 62 | }; | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | /* Read signals from a shared (process wide) queue */ | ||
| 65 | #define PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED (1 << 0) | ||
| 66 | |||
| 55 | /* Wait extended result codes for the above trace options. */ | 67 | /* Wait extended result codes for the above trace options. */ |
| 56 | #define PTRACE_EVENT_FORK 1 | 68 | #define PTRACE_EVENT_FORK 1 |
| 57 | #define PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK 2 | 69 | #define PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK 2 |