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

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 05:24:27 EST

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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 ?

Thanks,
Laurent.

>
> Test Result (All tests pass on both BE and LE)
> ----------------------------------------------
> ptrace-ebb PASS
> ptrace-gpr PASS
> ptrace-tm-gpr PASS
> ptrace-tm-spd-gpr PASS
> ptrace-tar PASS
> ptrace-tm-tar PASS
> ptrace-tm-spd-tar PASS
> ptrace-vsx PASS
> ptrace-tm-vsx PASS
> ptrace-tm-spd-vsx PASS
> ptrace-tm-spr PASS
>
> Previous versions:
> ==================
> RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/292
> V1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/43
> V2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/5/88
> V3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/23/486
> V4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/11/6
> V5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/25/134
> V6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/98
> V7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/14/19
> V8: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/19/700
> V9: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/8/522
>
> Changes in V10:
> ---------------
> - Rebased against the latest mainline
> - Fixed couple of build failures in the test cases related to aux vector
>
> Changes in V9:
> --------------
> - Fixed static build check failure after tm_orig_msr got dropped
> - Fixed asm volatile construct for used registers set
> - Fixed EBB, VSX, VMX tests for LE
> - Fixed TAR test which was failing because of system calls
> - Added checks for PPC_FEATURE2_HTM aux feature in the tests
> - Fixed copyright statements
>
> Changes in V8:
> --------------
> - Split the misc register set into individual ELF core notes
> - Implemented support for VSX register set (on and off TM)
> - Implemented support for EBB register set
> - Implemented review comments on previous versions
> - Some code re-arrangements, re-writes and documentation
> - Added comprehensive list of test cases into selftests
>
> Changes in V7:
> --------------
> - Fixed a config directive in the MISC code
> - Merged the two gitignore patches into a single one
>
> Changes in V6:
> --------------
> - Added two git ignore patches for powerpc selftests
> - Re-formatted all in-code function definitions in kernel-doc format
>
> Changes in V5:
> --------------
> - Changed flush_tmregs_to_thread, so not to take into account self tracing
> - Dropped the 3rd patch in the series which had merged two functions
> - Fixed one build problem for the misc debug register patch
> - Accommodated almost all the review comments from Suka on the 6th patch
> - Minor changes to the self test program
> - Changed commit messages for some of the patches
>
> Changes in V4:
> --------------
> - Added one test program into the powerpc selftest bucket in this regard
> - Split the 2nd patch in the previous series into four different patches
> - Accommodated most of the review comments on the previous patch series
> - Added a patch to merge functions __switch_to_tm and tm_reclaim_task
>
> Changes in V3:
> --------------
> - Added two new error paths in every TM related get/set functions when regset
> support is not present on the system (ENODEV) or when the process does not
> have any transaction active (ENODATA) in the context
> - Installed the active hooks for all the newly added regset core note types
>
> Changes in V2:
> --------------
> - Removed all the power specific ptrace requests corresponding to new NT_PPC_*
> elf core note types. Now all the register sets can be accessed from ptrace
> through PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET using the individual NT_PPC* core
> note type instead
> - Fixed couple of attribute values for REGSET_TM_CGPR register set
> - Renamed flush_tmreg_to_thread as flush_tmregs_to_thread
> - Fixed 32 bit checkpointed GPR support
> - Changed commit messages accordingly
>
>
> Anshuman Khandual (28):
> elf: Add powerpc specific core note sections
> powerpc, process: Add the function flush_tmregs_to_thread
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable in transaction NT_PRFPREG ptrace requests
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VMX ptrace requests
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable in transaction NT_PPC_VSX ptrace requests
> powerpc, ptrace: Adapt gpr32_get, gpr32_set functions for transaction
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CGPR
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CFPR
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CVMX
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CVSX
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for TM SPR state
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable NT_PPC_TM_CTAR, NT_PPC_TM_CPPR, NT_PPC_TM_CDSCR
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPPC_TAR, NT_PPC_PPR, NT_PPC_DSCR
> powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for EBB registers
> selftests, powerpc: Move 'reg.h' file outside of 'ebb' sub directory
> selftests, powerpc: Add more SPR numbers, TM & VMX instructions to 'reg.h'
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for EBB
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for GPR/FPR registers
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for GPR/FPR registers in TM
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for GPR/FPR registers in suspended TM
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TAR, PPR, DSCR registers
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TAR, PPR, DSCR in TM
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TAR, PPR, DSCR in suspended TM
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers in TM
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers in suspended TM
> selftests, powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TM SPR registers
> selftests, powerpc: Add .gitignore file for ptrace executables
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h | 8 +
> arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/elf.h | 6 +
> arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 20 +
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 1737 ++++++++++++++++++--
> include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 12 +
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile | 3 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/ebb.c | 2 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/ebb.h | 2 +-
> .../selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/ebb_handler.S | 2 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/reg.h | 49 -
> .../selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/reg_access_test.c | 2 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/.gitignore | 11 +
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/Makefile | 12 +
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-ebb.c | 150 ++
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-ebb.h | 103 ++
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-gpr.c | 191 +++
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-gpr.h | 73 +
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tar.c | 151 ++
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tar.h | 50 +
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-gpr.c | 288 ++++
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-gpr.c | 319 ++++
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-tar.c | 184 +++
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-vsx.c | 212 +++
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spr.c | 157 ++
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-tar.c | 170 ++
> .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-vsx.c | 196 +++
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.c | 138 ++
> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.h | 104 ++
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace.S | 396 +++++
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace.h | 766 +++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/reg.h | 70 +
> 31 files changed, 5406 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/reg.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/.gitignore
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/Makefile
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-ebb.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-ebb.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-gpr.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-gpr.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tar.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tar.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-gpr.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-gpr.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-tar.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-vsx.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spr.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-tar.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-vsx.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace.S
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/reg.h
>

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