linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V10 00/28] Add new powerpc specific ELF core notes

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Date:	Fri, 08 Apr 2016 07:49:49 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 00/28] Add new powerpc specific ELF core notes



On 7 April 2016 7:23:46 pm AEST, Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>On 16/02/2016 09:59, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> 	This patch series adds twelve new ELF core note sections which can
>> be used with existing ptrace request PTRACE_GETREGSET-SETREGSET for
>accessing
>> various transactional memory and other miscellaneous debug register
>sets on
>> powerpc platform.
>
>Hi Michael,
>
>This series is required to handle TM state in CRIU.
>Is there a chance to get it upstream soon ?

We were waiting on the gdb support to make sure it had some testing. If it's working for CRIU that would be a good data point, have you actually tested it with CRIU?

cheers
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