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 --- include/linux/elf.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/elf.h') diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h index 0cc4d55151b7..a8c4af073ce9 100644 --- a/include/linux/elf.h +++ b/include/linux/elf.h @@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr { #define NT_PPC_VSX 0x102 /* PowerPC VSX registers */ #define NT_386_TLS 0x200 /* i386 TLS slots (struct user_desc) */ #define NT_386_IOPERM 0x201 /* x86 io permission bitmap (1=deny) */ +#define NT_X86_XSTATE 0x202 /* x86 extended state using xsave */ #define NT_S390_HIGH_GPRS 0x300 /* s390 upper register halves */ -- cgit v1.2.3