On Sat, 2018-10-13 at 10:56:44 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > We use a shared definition for struct pt_regs in uapi/asm/ptrace.h. > That means the layout of the structure is ABI, ie. we can't change it. > > That would be fine if it was only used to describe the user-visible > register state of a process, but it's also the struct we use in the > kernel to describe the registers saved in an interrupt frame. > > We'd like more flexibility in the content (and possibly layout) of the > kernel version of the struct, but currently that's not possible. > > So split the definition into a user-visible definition which remains > unchanged, and a kernel internal one. > > At the moment they're still identical, and we check that at build > time. That's because we have code (in ptrace etc.) that assumes that > they are the same. We will fix that code in future patches, and then > we can break the strict symmetry between the two structs. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Series applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/002af9391bfbe84f8e491bb10bd9c6 cheers
