[PATCH v1 2/4] arm64/ptrace: Document extension of NT_ARM_TLS to cover TPIDR2_EL0

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Jul 4 11:13:30 PDT 2022


In order to allow debuggers to discover lazily saved SME state we need
to provide access to TPIDR2_EL0, we will extend the existing NT_ARM_TLS
used for TPIDR to also include TPIDR2_EL0 as the second register in the
regset.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/arm64/sme.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sme.rst b/Documentation/arm64/sme.rst
index 937147f58cc5..16d2db4c2e2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/sme.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/sme.rst
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ The regset data starts with struct user_za_header, containing:
   been read if a PTRACE_GETREGSET of NT_ARM_ZA were executed for each thread
   when the coredump was generated.
 
+* The NT_ARM_TLS note will be extended to two registers, the second register
+  will contain TPIDR2_EL0 on systems that support SME and will be read as
+  zero with writes ignored otherwise.
 
 9.  System runtime configuration
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-- 
2.30.2




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