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>
diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h
index 0cc4d55..a8c4af0 100644
--- a/include/linux/elf.h
+++ b/include/linux/elf.h
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@
#define NT_PPC_VSX 0x102 /* PowerPC VSX registers */
#define NT_386_TLS 0x200 /* i386 TLS slots (struct user_desc) */
#define NT_386_IOPERM 0x201 /* x86 io permission bitmap (1=deny) */
+#define NT_X86_XSTATE 0x202 /* x86 extended state using xsave */
#define NT_S390_HIGH_GPRS 0x300 /* s390 upper register halves */