Anshuman Khandual [[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>

| ---
|  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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