From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BEB61A02C1 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:27:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from e28smtp05.in.ibm.com (e28smtp05.in.ibm.com [122.248.162.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8237714007D for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:27:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp05.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:57:12 +0530 Received: from d28relay01.in.ibm.com (d28relay01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.58]) by d28dlp03.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826D5125805C for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:56:57 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av02.in.ibm.com (d28av02.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.64]) by d28relay01.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s6HASoSs52166900 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:58:50 +0530 Received: from d28av02.in.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d28av02.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s6HAR7mL005511 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:57:08 +0530 Message-ID: <53C7A4FA.4030600@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:57:06 +0530 From: Anshuman Khandual MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/3] Add new PowerPC specific ELF core notes References: <1400858138-3939-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53996E41.4070309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <53996E41.4070309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Michael Neuling , james.hogan@imgtec.com, avagin@openvz.org, Paul.Clothier@imgtec.com, peterz@infradead.org, palves@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, tglx@linutronix.de, davej@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 06/12/2014 02:39 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > On 05/23/2014 08:45 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >> This patch series adds five new ELF core note sections which can be >> used with existing ptrace request PTRACE_GETREGSET/SETREGSET for accessing >> various transactional memory and miscellaneous register sets on PowerPC >> platform. Please find a test program exploiting these new ELF core note >> types on a POWER8 system. >> >> RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/292 >> V1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/43 >> V2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/5/88 >> >> Changes in V3 >> ============= >> (1) Added two new error paths in every TM related get/set functions when regset >> support is not present on the system (ENODEV) or when the process does not >> have any transaction active (ENODATA) in the context >> >> (2) Installed the active hooks for all the newly added regset core note types >> >> Changes in V2 >> ============= >> (1) Removed all the power specific ptrace requests corresponding to new NT_PPC_* >> elf core note types. Now all the register sets can be accessed from ptrace >> through PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET using the individual NT_PPC* core >> note type instead >> (2) Fixed couple of attribute values for REGSET_TM_CGPR register set >> (3) Renamed flush_tmreg_to_thread as flush_tmregs_to_thread >> (4) Fixed 32 bit checkpointed GPR support >> (5) Changed commit messages accordingly >> >> Outstanding Issues >> ================== >> (1) Running DSCR register value inside a transaction does not seem to be saved >> at thread.dscr when the process stops for ptrace examination. > > Hey Ben, > > Any updates on this patch series ? Ben, Any updates on this patch series ?