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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2010-02-11 11:50:59 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-11 15:08:17 -0800 |
| commit | 5b3efd500854d45d305b53c54c97db5970959980 (patch) | |
| tree | 731629e22791d14b9661cada9c0c69eb38776c3b /arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h | |
| parent | 676ad585531e965416fd958747894541dabcec96 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5b3efd500854d45d305b53c54c97db5970959980.tar.bz2 | |
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 <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h index ebfb8a9e11f7..da2930924501 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h @@ -33,8 +33,16 @@ extern void init_thread_xstate(void); extern int dump_fpu(struct pt_regs *, struct user_i387_struct *); extern user_regset_active_fn fpregs_active, xfpregs_active; -extern user_regset_get_fn fpregs_get, xfpregs_get, fpregs_soft_get; -extern user_regset_set_fn fpregs_set, xfpregs_set, fpregs_soft_set; +extern user_regset_get_fn fpregs_get, xfpregs_get, fpregs_soft_get, + xstateregs_get; +extern user_regset_set_fn fpregs_set, xfpregs_set, fpregs_soft_set, + xstateregs_set; + +/* + * xstateregs_active == fpregs_active. Please refer to the comment + * at the definition of fpregs_active. + */ +#define xstateregs_active fpregs_active extern struct _fpx_sw_bytes fx_sw_reserved; #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION |