[PATCH V8 00/28] Add new powerpc specific ELF core notes

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 25 18:40:12 AEST 2015


On 05/19/2015 08:37 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman at localhost.localdomain>
> 
> 	This patch series adds twelve new ELF core note sections which can
> be used with existing ptrace request PTRACE_GETREGSET-SETREGSET for accessing
> various transactional memory and other miscellaneous debug register sets on
> powerpc platform.
> 
> Previous versions:
> ==================
> RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/292
> V1:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/43
> V2:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/5/88
> V3:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/23/486
> V4:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/11/6
> V5:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/25/134
> V6:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/98
> V7:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/14/19
> 
> Changes in V8:
> --------------
> - Split the misc register set into individual ELF core notes
> - Implemented support for VSX register set (on and off TM)
> - Implemented support for EBB register set
> - Implemented review comments on previous versions
> - Some code re-arrangements, re-writes and documentation
> - Added comprehensive list of test cases into selftests


These patches are available for pull from this location mentioned below.

https://github.com/akhandual/linux.git ptrace_powerpc_v8



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