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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2010-02-11 11:50:59 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-11 15:08:17 -0800 |
| commit | 5b3efd500854d45d305b53c54c97db5970959980 (patch) | |
| tree | 731629e22791d14b9661cada9c0c69eb38776c3b /arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h | |
| parent | 676ad585531e965416fd958747894541dabcec96 (diff) | |
x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate
Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the
core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc.
This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets
supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure.
Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state
is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is
in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence
we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or
the state is not saved in the memory layout.
And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset
interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented
in the memory layout.
First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate
mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).
The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the
core file, using the above mentioned memory layout.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h index 727acc152344..ddc04ccad03b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h @@ -27,9 +27,11 @@ extern unsigned int xstate_size; extern u64 pcntxt_mask; extern struct xsave_struct *init_xstate_buf; +extern u64 xstate_fx_sw_bytes[USER_XSTATE_FX_SW_WORDS]; extern void xsave_cntxt_init(void); extern void xsave_init(void); +extern void update_regset_xstate_info(unsigned int size, u64 xstate_mask); extern int init_fpu(struct task_struct *child); extern int check_for_xstate(struct i387_fxsave_struct __user *buf, void __user *fpstate, |