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ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET

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Generic support for PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET commands which
export the regsets supported by each architecture using the correponding
NT_* types. These NT_* types are already part of the userland ABI, used
in representing the architecture specific register sets as different NOTES
in an ELF core file.

'addr' parameter for the ptrace system call encode the REGSET type (using
the corresppnding NT_* type) and the 'data' parameter points to the
struct iovec having the user buffer and the length of that buffer.

	struct iovec iov = { buf, len};
	ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov);

On 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.

x86 extended state registers are primarily exported using this interface.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.886724710@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Suresh Siddha 2010-02-11 11:51:00 -08:00 • committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 5b3efd5008
commit 2225a122ae
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@ -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