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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-28 10:59:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-28 10:59:44 -0800
commit6f5621cb160fada5bc52c2961ddc86e69e478912 (patch)
tree921577f89b2bbc69813eabfd21ceedb4d7200133 /include
parentc7e15899d07c9813c1aa96b21699d2d9c8314c4b (diff)
parent6dbbe14f21368a45aedba7eab0221857b8ad8d16 (diff)
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.h7
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h20
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h
index 39ad4b230a4..ad990c5f63f 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 56f2d63a5cb..c5eab89da51 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