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

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 05/19/2015 08:37 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Test Result
> -----------
> ptrace-ebb		PASS
> ptrace-gpr		PASS
> ptrace-tm-gpr		PASS
> ptrace-tm-spd-gpr	PASS
> ptrace-tar		FAIL
> ptrace-tm-tar		FAIL
> ptrace-tm-spd-tar	FAIL
> ptrace-vsx		PASS
> ptrace-tm-vsx		PASS
> ptrace-tm-spd-vsx	PASS
> ptrace-tm-spr		PASS
> 
> NOTE: The above three test case failures are due to PPR context save/restore
> in various paths. Still continue to debug the issue.

This was an false alarm. The tracee process executed system calls with
shmdt() and printf() after writing the new PPR value.