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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:57:06 +0530 From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> CC: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>, james.hogan@...tec.com, avagin@...nvz.org, Paul.Clothier@...tec.com, davem@...emloft.net, peterz@...radead.org, palves@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oleg@...hat.com, dhowells@...hat.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, davej@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/3] Add new PowerPC specific ELF core notes 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 ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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