On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 05:10 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > >>> You're probably right :) > >>> > >>> What cores have SPE at the moment? Also, perhaps more importantly, > >>> are there any plans to have Altivec and SPE in the same core? > >> > >> The e500 cores's from Freescale. > >> > >> No, they are pretty much mutually exclusive. > >> > >>> I've been working with Carlos Eduardo Seo (Cc'ed on this mail) on > >>> the GDB side of this. > >> > >> From comments it looks like the expectation is that the combination > >> of note type and name which is expected to be unique. > >> > >> I'm wondering if we should handle this via > >> elf_coredump_extra_notes_size() & elf_coredump_extra_notes_write(). > >> Does GDB care about the order it sees the various sections in? > > > > I don't think those callbacks will work in this case, they're only > > called for the primary thread that's doing the coredump, not for each > > thread. Perhaps there's a way to adapt it though. > > > > I think the easiest solution for now is just to make the note type a > > #define and create a new value for Altivec. > > Oh, well. It shouldn't be too difficult to abstract vector handler > similar to how we do GPRs today to the core dump code.
I'm not sure I follow, you mean elf_core_copy_regs() ?
If so, that's basically what we've done, the problem is that as with
elf_core_copy_regs(), although the content is abstracted and overridden
by arch code, the note type is not. But making the vector note type
configurable seems easy enough.
eg:
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 4482a06..7c8a145 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs,
#ifdef ELF_CORE_COPY_XFPREGS
if (elf_core_copy_task_xfpregs(current, xfpu))
fill_note(notes + numnote++,
- "LINUX", NT_PRXFPREG, sizeof(*xfpu), xfpu);
+ "LINUX", ELF_CORE_XFPREGS_TYPE, sizeof(*xfpu), xfpu);
#endif
fs = get_fs();
cheers
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