Will Deacon 139dbe5d8e arm64: syscall: Expand the comment about ptrace and syscall(-1) ...

If a task executes syscall(-1), we intercept this early and force x0 to
be -ENOSYS so that we don't need to distinguish this scenario from one
where the scno is -1 because a tracer wants to skip the system call
using ptrace. With the return value set, the return path is the same as
the skip case.

Although there is a one-line comment noting this in el0_svc_common(), it
misses out most of the detail. Expand the comment to describe a bit more
about what is going on.

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

2020-07-16 11:41:58 +01:00

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