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ptrace: change signature of sys_ptrace() and friends
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:33:45 +0000 (15:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:03:10 +0000 (18:03 -0700)
commit4abf986960ecda6a87fc2f795aacf888a2f0127e
tree39601ac75c3b92a3894722287bd9068a8b5e68d0
parentc4b5ed250eebf854d40f27b43362c80f115cb57a
ptrace: change signature of sys_ptrace() and friends

Since userspace API of ptrace syscall defines @addr and @data as void
pointers, it would be more appropriate to define them as unsigned long in
kernel.  Therefore related functions are changed also.

'unsigned long' is typically used in other places in kernel as an opaque
data type and that using this helps cleaning up a lot of warnings from
sparse.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/ptrace.h
include/linux/syscalls.h
kernel/ptrace.c