[PATCH v4 1/2] ARM: ELF: Define new core note type for VFP registers

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Tue May 3 05:36:59 EDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 07:49:25PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:56:36AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > The VFP registers are not currently included in coredumps,
> > and there's no existing note type where they can sensibly be
> > included, so this patch defines a dedicated note type for them.
> 
> This probably wants to be copied to LKML (added).

Good point-- thanks.

---Dave

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon at arm.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/elf.h |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h
> > index 4d60801..110821c 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/elf.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/elf.h
> > @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
> >  #define NT_S390_CTRS	0x304		/* s390 control registers */
> >  #define NT_S390_PREFIX	0x305		/* s390 prefix register */
> >  #define NT_S390_LAST_BREAK	0x306	/* s390 breaking event address */
> > +#define NT_ARM_VFP	0x400		/* ARM VFP/NEON registers */
> >  
> >  
> >  /* Note header in a PT_NOTE section */
> > -- 
> > 1.7.1
> > 
> > 
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