Re: [PATCH V8 00/28] Add new powerpc specific ELF core notes

2015-06-08 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Anshuman Khandual wrote on 19.05.2015 17:07:56: >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.

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-04-21 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Anshuman Khandual wrote on 21.04.2015 06:55:24: > Changed ELF core note sections > -- > These core note sections need to be changed to accommodate the in > transaction ptrace requests when the running/current value of these > registers will reside some where else inste

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-04-20 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Anshuman Khandual wrote on 13.04.2015 10:48:57: > On 04/10/2015 04:03 PM, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > > - You provide checkpointed FPR and VMX registers, but there doesn't seem > > to be any way to get at the checkpointed *VSX* registers (i.e. the part > > that is nei

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-04-08 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Anshuman Khandual wrote on 23.03.2015 11:34:30: > > With that in mind, do we have a way to set the top 32bits of the MSR > > (which contain the TM bits) when ptracing 32 bit processes? I can't > > find anything like that in this patch set. > > No, we dont have that yet. When ptracing in 32-bit m

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-03-18 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Michael Neuling wrote on 23.02.2015 05:51:50: > Sorry for the slow response. Same here :-( > Should this inferior function be run in the current mode of the > processor? ie if the process is currently transactional and the > transaction aborts, should we be able to see any global state change

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-02-06 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Michael Neuling wrote on 28.01.2015 05:28:09: > Sorry, I'm rethinking this as we didn't consider user suspended > transactions. > > It makes sense for normal transactions but for user suspended > transactions the running values are the ones you want to modify since > that is where you'll end up r

Re: [V6,1/9] elf: Add new powerpc specifc core note sections

2015-01-22 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Michael Neuling wrote on 22.01.2015 00:39:57: > On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 13:38 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > > On 12/20/2014 12:58 AM, Edjunior Barbosa Machado wrote: > > > The patchset seems to change the "original" ptrace requests (i.e. > > > PTRACE_GETREGS/GETFPREGS/GETVRREGS...) to return the

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Build ppc64le kernel using ABIv2

2014-03-25 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Anton Blanchard wrote on 25.03.2014 12:44:06: > There are two known outstanding issues: > > - If a kernel module calls into an exported assembly function > which in turns calls out to C, r2 is going to be wrong. One example > is __copy_tofrom_user_power7. > > The reason is _GLOBAL() doesn't

Hardware watchpoints on Cell/B.E. broken

2007-11-09 Thread Ulrich Weigand
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