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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-02-28 10:59:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-02-28 10:59:44 -0800 |
| commit | 6f5621cb160fada5bc52c2961ddc86e69e478912 (patch) | |
| tree | 921577f89b2bbc69813eabfd21ceedb4d7200133 /include | |
| parent | c7e15899d07c9813c1aa96b21699d2d9c8314c4b (diff) | |
| parent | 6dbbe14f21368a45aedba7eab0221857b8ad8d16 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6f5621cb160fada5bc52c2961ddc86e69e478912.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'x86-ptrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-ptrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, ptrace: Remove set_stopped_child_used_math() in [x]fpregs_set x86, ptrace: Simplify xstateregs_get() ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically parisc: Disable CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/elf.h | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ptrace.h | 20 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h index 39ad4b230a4a..ad990c5f63f6 100644 --- a/include/linux/elf.h +++ b/include/linux/elf.h @@ -349,7 +349,11 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr { #define ELF_OSABI ELFOSABI_NONE #endif -/* Notes used in ET_CORE */ +/* + * Notes used in ET_CORE. Architectures export some of the arch register sets + * using the corresponding note types via the PTRACE_GETREGSET and + * PTRACE_SETREGSET requests. + */ #define NT_PRSTATUS 1 #define NT_PRFPREG 2 #define NT_PRPSINFO 3 @@ -361,6 +365,7 @@ 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 */ #define NT_S390_TIMER 0x301 /* s390 timer register */ #define NT_S390_TODCMP 0x302 /* s390 TOD clock comparator register */ diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h index 56f2d63a5cbb..c5eab89da51e 100644 --- a/include/linux/ptrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h @@ -27,6 +27,26 @@ #define PTRACE_GETSIGINFO 0x4202 #define PTRACE_SETSIGINFO 0x4203 +/* + * Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets + * using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump). + * Please note that the NT_PRSTATUS note type in a core dump contains a full + * 'struct elf_prstatus'. But the user_regset for NT_PRSTATUS contains just the + * elf_gregset_t that is the pr_reg field of 'struct elf_prstatus'. For all the + * other user_regset flavors, the user_regset layout and the ELF core dump note + * payload are exactly the same layout. + * + * This interface usage is as follows: + * struct iovec iov = { buf, len}; + * + * ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov); + * + * On the successful completion, iov.len will be updated by the kernel, + * specifying how much the kernel has written/read to/from the user's iov.buf. + */ +#define PTRACE_GETREGSET 0x4204 +#define PTRACE_SETREGSET 0x4205 + /* options set using PTRACE_SETOPTIONS */ #define PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD 0x00000001 #define PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK 0x00000002 |