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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2010-02-11 11:50:59 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-02-11 15:08:17 -0800
commit5b3efd500854d45d305b53c54c97db5970959980 (patch)
tree731629e22791d14b9661cada9c0c69eb38776c3b /arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
parent676ad585531e965416fd958747894541dabcec96 (diff)
x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate
Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc. This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure. Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or the state is not saved in the memory layout. And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented in the memory layout. First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0). The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the core file, using the above mentioned memory layout. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
index c5ee17e8c6d9..782c3a362ec6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ void __ref xsave_cntxt_init(void)
cpuid_count(0xd, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
xstate_size = ebx;
+ update_regset_xstate_info(xstate_size, pcntxt_mask);
prepare_fx_sw_frame();
setup_xstate_init();