[PATCH v3 0/4] arm64/sme: ptrace support for TPIDR2_EL0

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Aug 18 10:01:07 PDT 2022


When SME was initially merged we did not add support for TPIDR2_EL0 to
the ptrace interface, creating difficulties for debuggers in accessing
lazy save state for ZA. This series implements that support, extending
the existing NT_ARM_TLS regset to support the register when available,
and adds kselftest coverage for the existing and new NT_ARM_TLS
functionality.

Existing programs that query the size of the register set will be able
to observe the increased size of the register set. Programs that assume
the register set is single register will see no change. On systems that
do not support SME TPIDR2_EL0 will read as 0 and writes will be ignored,
support for SME should be queried via hwcaps as normal.

v3:
 - Fix copyright date on test program.
v2:
 - Rebase onto v6.0-rc1.

Mark Brown (4):
  kselftest/arm64: Add test coverage for NT_ARM_TLS
  arm64/ptrace: Document extension of NT_ARM_TLS to cover TPIDR2_EL0
  arm64/ptrace: Support access to TPIDR2_EL0
  kselftest/arm64: Add coverage of TPIDR2_EL0 ptrace interface

 Documentation/arm64/sme.rst                  |   3 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c                   |  25 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/.gitignore |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/Makefile   |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/ptrace.c   | 241 +++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 266 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/ptrace.c


base-commit: 568035b01cfb107af8d2e4bd2fb9aea22cf5b868
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2.30.2




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