From 43d4da2c45b2f5d62f8a79ff7c6f95089bb24656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Martin Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:51:13 +0000 Subject: arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This patch defines and implements a new regset NT_ARM_SVE, which describes a thread's SVE register state. This allows a debugger to manipulate the SVE state, as well as being included in ELF coredumps for post-mortem debugging. Because the regset size and layout are dependent on the thread's current vector length, it is not possible to define a C struct to describe the regset contents as is done for existing regsets. Instead, and for the same reasons, NT_ARM_SVE is based on the freeform variable-layout approach used for the SVE signal frame. Additionally, to reduce debug overhead when debugging threads that might or might not have live SVE register state, NT_ARM_SVE may be presented in one of two different formats: the old struct user_fpsimd_state format is embedded for describing the state of a thread with no live SVE state, whereas a new variable-layout structure is embedded for describing live SVE state. This avoids a debugger needing to poll NT_PRFPREG in addition to NT_ARM_SVE, and allows existing userspace code to handle the non-SVE case without too much modification. For this to work, NT_ARM_SVE is defined with a fixed-format header of type struct user_sve_header, which the recipient can use to figure out the content, size and layout of the reset of the regset. Accessor macros are defined to allow the vector-length-dependent parts of the regset to be manipulated. Signed-off-by: Alan Hayward Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Alex Bennée Cc: Okamoto Takayuki Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h index b5280db9ef6a..735b8f4d12fc 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h @@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr { #define NT_ARM_HW_BREAK 0x402 /* ARM hardware breakpoint registers */ #define NT_ARM_HW_WATCH 0x403 /* ARM hardware watchpoint registers */ #define NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL 0x404 /* ARM system call number */ +#define NT_ARM_SVE 0x405 /* ARM Scalable Vector Extension registers */ #define NT_METAG_CBUF 0x500 /* Metag catch buffer registers */ #define NT_METAG_RPIPE 0x501 /* Metag read pipeline state */ #define NT_METAG_TLS 0x502 /* Metag TLS pointer */ -- cgit v1.2.3-71-gd317