powerpc: add Altivec/VMX state to coredumps
authorMark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:25:40 +0000 (23:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:44 +0000 (08:42 -0700)
commit1f7d6668c29b1dfa307a44844f9bb38356fc989b
tree7e8feb874806710834619756dba698cd2697cd1f
parent5b20cd80b4ce1674b7abe5ac91db23346118176d
powerpc: add Altivec/VMX state to coredumps

Update dump_task_altivec() (which has so far never been put to use) so that
it dumps the Altivec/VMX registers (VR[0] - VR[31], VSCR and VRSAVE) in the
same format as the ptrace get_vrregs(), and add the appropriate glue
typedef and #defines to make it work.

A new note type of NT_PPC_VMX was chosen to be 0x100 (arbitrarily) because
it allows the low range values to be used for more generic purposes and
0x100 seems an adequate starting point for PowerPC extensions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
include/asm-powerpc/elf.h
include/linux/elf.h