On 05/23/2014 08:45 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > This patch series adds five new ELF core note sections which can be > used with existing ptrace request PTRACE_GETREGSET/SETREGSET for accessing > various transactional memory and miscellaneous register sets on PowerPC > platform. Please find a test program exploiting these new ELF core note > types on a POWER8 system. > > 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 > > Changes in V3 > ============= > (1) Added two new error paths in every TM related get/set functions when > regset > support is not present on the system (ENODEV) or when the process does not > have any transaction active (ENODATA) in the context > > (2) Installed the active hooks for all the newly added regset core note types > > Changes in V2 > ============= > (1) Removed all the power specific ptrace requests corresponding to new > NT_PPC_* > elf core note types. Now all the register sets can be accessed from ptrace > through PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET using the individual NT_PPC* > core > note type instead > (2) Fixed couple of attribute values for REGSET_TM_CGPR register set > (3) Renamed flush_tmreg_to_thread as flush_tmregs_to_thread > (4) Fixed 32 bit checkpointed GPR support > (5) Changed commit messages accordingly > > 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 ? _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev