On 04/02/2014 08:02 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > This patch adds following new sets of ptrace request macros for transactional > memory expanding the existing ptrace ABI on PowerPC. > > /* TM special purpose registers */ > PTRACE_GETTM_SPRREGS > PTRACE_SETTM_SPRREGS > > /* TM checkpointed GPR registers */ > PTRACE_GETTM_CGPRREGS > PTRACE_SETTM_CGPRREGS > > /* TM checkpointed FPR registers */ > PTRACE_GETTM_CFPRREGS > PTRACE_SETTM_CFPRREGS > > /* TM checkpointed VMX registers */ > PTRACE_GETTM_CVMXREGS > PTRACE_SETTM_CVMXREGS
Urgh, we're _still_ adding specialized register specific calls? Why aren't these exported as new register sets, accessible through PTRACE_GETREGSET / PTRACE_SETREGSET? That's supposed to be the Modern Way to do things. -- Pedro Alves -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
