From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave.martin@linaro.org (Dave Martin) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:43:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] ARM: ptrace: migrate to regsets and enable VFP coredumps Message-ID: <1301935406-10591-1-git-send-email-dave.martin@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org The VFP register state is currently missing from coredumps. Rather than adding extra arch-specific code to handle this, migrating to use the regsets framework and implementing a regset for the VFP registers allows this state to be dumped automatically, as well as simplifying some aspects of the ptrace implementation. Dumping of other extension state could also be built straightforwardly on the same framework, though I don't attempt to implement that here. In principle, we should be able to enable the generic PTRAGE_GETREGSET/PTRAGE_SETREGSET calls too, but strangely these are #ifdef'd on CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK (which we don't currently have). CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET might be more appropriate. I'll raise this question separately on lkml. v2: Move the new note definition to the customary global include/linux/elf.h v3: Explicitly ensure the size of the VFP state dump is 0x104 bytes, instead just relying on sizeof(struct user_vfp) which is larger due to trailing padding. This avoids transferring too much data in the net PTRACE_GET/SETVFPREGS calls, as well as matching the coredump contents to the old ptrace payload. Dave Martin (2): ARM: ELF: Define new core note type for VFP registers ARM: ptrace: Migrate to regsets framework arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h | 1 + arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h | 6 + arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c | 348 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- include/linux/elf.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)