From 5b3efd500854d45d305b53c54c97db5970959980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:50:59 -0800 Subject: x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc. This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure. Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or the state is not saved in the memory layout. And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented in the memory layout. First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0). The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the core file, using the above mentioned memory layout. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c index c5ee17e8c6d9..782c3a362ec6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ void __ref xsave_cntxt_init(void) cpuid_count(0xd, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx); xstate_size = ebx; + update_regset_xstate_info(xstate_size, pcntxt_mask); prepare_fx_sw_frame(); setup_xstate_init(); -- cgit v1.2.3