linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/linux/elf.h, branch v4.3-rc6

arm64: ptrace: add NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL regset

2014-11-28T10:19:49+00:00

This regeset is intended to be used to get and set a system call number
while tracing.
There was some discussion about possible approaches to do so:

(1) modify x8 register with ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET) indirectly,
    and update regs->syscallno later on in syscall_trace_enter(), or
(2) define a dedicated regset for this purpose as on s390, or
(3) support ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL) as on arch/arm

Thinking of the fact that user_pt_regs doesn't expose 'syscallno' to
tracer as well as that secure_computing() expects a changed syscall number,
especially case of -1, to be visible before this function returns in
syscall_trace_enter(), (1) doesn't work well.
We will take (2) since it looks much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

s390: add support for vector extension

2014-10-09T07:14:13+00:00

The vector extension introduces 32 128-bit vector registers and a set of
instruction to operate on the vector registers.

The kernel can control the use of vector registers for the problem state
program with a bit in control register 0. Once enabled for a process the
kernel needs to retain the content of the vector registers on context
switch. The signal frame is extended to include the vector registers.
Two new register sets NT_S390_VXRS_LOW and NT_S390_VXRS_HIGH are added
to the regset interface for the debugger and core dumps.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

metag: ptrace: Implement NT_METAG_TLS

2013-03-27T14:37:47+00:00

Implement functionality to get the TLS pointer for the metag
architecture using regsets.

This provides multi-threaded debug support for GDB.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clothier 
Signed-off-by: James Hogan

Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag

2013-03-03T20:06:09+00:00

Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
 "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
  cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
  fixes which I kept separate to ease review:

   - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
   - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
   - A few privilege protection fixes
   - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
     metag_ksyms.c)
   - Fix some missing exports
   - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
   - Copy device tree to non-init memory
   - Provide dma_get_sgtable()"

* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
  metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
  metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
  metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
  metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
  metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
  genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
  metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
  metag: export clear_page and copy_page
  metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
  metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
  metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
  metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
  perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
  metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
  metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
  ...

metag: ptrace

2013-03-02T20:09:22+00:00

The ptrace interface for metag provides access to some core register
sets using the PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET operations. The
details of the internal context structures is abstracted into user API
structures to both ease use and allow flexibility to change the internal
context layouts. Copyin and copyout functions for these register sets
are exposed to allow signal handling code to use them to copy to and
from the signal context.

struct user_gp_regs (NT_PRSTATUS) provides access to the core general
purpose register context.

struct user_cb_regs (NT_METAG_CBUF) provides access to the TXCATCH*
registers which contains information abuot a memory fault, unaligned
access error or watchpoint. This can be modified to alter the way the
fault is replayed on resume ("catch replay"), or to prevent the replay
taking place.

struct user_rp_state (NT_METAG_RPIPE) provides access to the state of
the Meta read pipeline which can be used to hide memory latencies in
hand optimised data loops.

Extended DSP register state, DSP RAM, and hardware breakpoint registers
aren't yet exposed through ptrace.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Tony Lindgren 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"

sun.com documentation fixes

2013-02-22T01:22:20+00:00

After I came across a help text for SUNGEM mentioning a broken sun.com
URL, I felt like fixing those up, as they are now pointing to oracle.com
URLs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones