[PATCH V4 7/8] powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for miscellaneous debug registers

[Denis Kirjanov]

On 11/21/14, Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2014 03:30 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
>> On 11/13/14, Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> > On 11/11/2014 10:56 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>> >> This patch enables get and set of miscellaneous debug registers
>>>> >> through
>>>> >> ptrace PTRACE_GETREGSET-PTRACE_SETREGSET interface by implementing
>>>> >> new
>>>> >> powerpc specific register set REGSET_MISC support corresponding to
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> new ELF core note NT_PPC_MISC added previously in this regard.
>>> >
>>> > Right now this one does not compile for "ppc64e_defconfig" and
>>> > "pmac32_defconfig" config options. The patch below will fix it
>>> > and would be part of next revision.
>> It would be great to have a test tool for that under
>> tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/
>>
>
> Hey Denis,
>
> I have already added one test case under selftests/powerpc/tm/ which
> will test all the newly added ELF core note based ptrace requests on
> powerpc. This test case is added as part of the next patch 8/8 in
> the series. Please let me know if the test case does not cover something
> you are looking for.

Oh, I've missed this one. Anyway, I'll wait the second version to test.

Thanks.

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