diff options
| author | Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2008-03-04 14:28:30 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-04 16:35:10 -0800 |
| commit | d31472b6d4f799a68d877f69b2f843eec5875472 (patch) | |
| tree | beda33325687f2bebbdde49e68cad79b5e8242d2 /fs | |
| parent | 938a9204e0df070bfbaac71f6403cebed76763ad (diff) | |
core dump: user_regset writeback
This makes the user_regset-based core dump code call user_regset writeback
hooks when available. This is necessary groundwork to allow IA64 to set
CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET.
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 41a958a7585..5e1a4fb5cac 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1424,6 +1424,18 @@ struct elf_note_info { int thread_notes; }; +/* + * When a regset has a writeback hook, we call it on each thread before + * dumping user memory. On register window machines, this makes sure the + * user memory backing the register data is up to date before we read it. + */ +static void do_thread_regset_writeback(struct task_struct *task, + const struct user_regset *regset) +{ + if (regset->writeback) + regset->writeback(task, regset, 1); +} + static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t, const struct user_regset_view *view, long signr, size_t *total) @@ -1445,6 +1457,8 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t, sizeof(t->prstatus), &t->prstatus); *total += notesize(&t->notes[0]); + do_thread_regset_writeback(t->task, &view->regsets[0]); + /* * Each other regset might generate a note too. For each regset * that has no core_note_type or is inactive, we leave t->notes[i] @@ -1452,6 +1466,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t, */ for (i = 1; i < view->n; ++i) { const struct user_regset *regset = &view->regsets[i]; + do_thread_regset_writeback(t->task, regset); if (regset->core_note_type && (!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset))) { int ret; |