Re: [PATCH V4 1/8] elf: Add new PowerPC specifc core note sections

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Date: Tue Nov 18 2014 - 16:28:38 EST


Anshuman Khandual [khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
| This patch adds four new core note sections for PowerPC transactional
| memory and one core note section for general miscellaneous debug registers.
| These addition of new elf core note sections extends the existing elf ABI
| without affecting it in any manner.
|
| Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Except for some minor comments to one of the patches, the patchset
looks good to me. I was also able to run the included selftest on
a PowerVM guest.

Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| ---
| include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 5 +++++
| 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
|
| diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
| index ea9bf25..2260fc0 100644
| --- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
| +++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
| @@ -379,6 +379,11 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
| #define NT_PPC_VMX 0x100 /* PowerPC Altivec/VMX registers */
| #define NT_PPC_SPE 0x101 /* PowerPC SPE/EVR registers */
| #define NT_PPC_VSX 0x102 /* PowerPC VSX registers */
| +#define NT_PPC_TM_SPR 0x103 /* PowerPC TM special registers */
| +#define NT_PPC_TM_CGPR 0x104 /* PowerpC TM checkpointed GPR */
| +#define NT_PPC_TM_CFPR 0x105 /* PowerPC TM checkpointed FPR */
| +#define NT_PPC_TM_CVMX 0x106 /* PowerPC TM checkpointed VMX */
| +#define NT_PPC_MISC 0x107 /* PowerPC miscellaneous 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 */
| --
| 1.9.3

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