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s390/ptrace: clarify bits in the per_struct

The bits single_step and instruction_fetch lost their meaning
with git commit 5e9a26928f550157 "[S390] ptrace cleanup".
Clarify the comment for these two bits.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Martin Schwidefsky 9 years ago
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      arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h

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arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h

@@ -359,9 +359,9 @@ typedef struct
 		per_cr_bits    bits;
 	} control_regs;
 	/*
-	 * Use these flags instead of setting em_instruction_fetch
-	 * directly they are used so that single stepping can be
-	 * switched on & off while not affecting other tracing
+	 * The single_step and instruction_fetch bits are obsolete,
+	 * the kernel always sets them to zero. To enable single
+	 * stepping use ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP) instead.
 	 */
 	unsigned  single_step       : 1;
 	unsigned  instruction_fetch : 1;