[PATCH V3 0/3] Add new PowerPC specific ELF core notes

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 07/18/2014 04:53 AM, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> On 17/07/14 21:14, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2014 9:11 PM, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt"
>> <benh at kernel.crashing.org <mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Outstanding Issues
>>>>>> ==================
>>>>>> (1) Running DSCR register value inside a transaction does not
>> seem to be saved
>>>>>>     at thread.dscr when the process stops for ptrace examination.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey Ben,
>>>>>
>>>>> Any updates on this patch series ?
>>>>
>>>> Ben,
>>>>
>>>> Any updates on this patch series ?
>>>
>>> I haven't had a chance to review yet, I was hoping somebody else would..
>>>
>>> Have you made any progress vs. the DSCR outstanding issue mentioned
>>> above ?
>>
>> The DSCR issue should be resolved with Sam Bobroff's recent  DSCR
>> fixes.  I've not tested them though.
>>
>> Actually... Sam did you review this series?
>>
>> Mikey
>>
> 
> I did, and applying "powerpc: Correct DSCR during TM context switch"
> corrected the DSCR value in the test program (the one in the patch notes
> for this series).
> 
> (In fact, IIRC, the reason for my patch set was the bug exposed by this
> one ;-)

Yeah the test program worked correctly with the fix from Sam. The first patch
is a generic code change which Pedro had reviewed before. The second and third
patches are powerpc specific.