Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7 v1]powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on protection key violation.

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Fri Jun 16 2017 - 05:20:42 EST


On 06/06/2017 06:35 AM, Ram Pai wrote:
> The value of the AMR register at the time of the exception
> is made available in gp_regs[PT_AMR] of the siginfo.

But its already available there in uctxt->uc_mcontext.regs->amr
while inside the signal delivery context in the user space. The
pt_regs already got updated with new AMR register. Then why we
need gp_regs to also contain AMR as well ?