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    arm64: syscall: Expand the comment about ptrace and syscall(-1) · 139dbe5d
    Will Deacon authored
    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: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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