On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 17:49 -0400, Gustavo Romero wrote: > Since POWER8, PowerPC 64 supports Hardware Transactional Memory, which has > three special purpose registers associated to it: tfhar, tfiar, and texasr. > This commit add HTM SPRs set as known note type so it's possible to use > 'readelf --notes' to inspect the HTM SPRs in a coredump file generated in > such a machines.
This patch looks perfect, thanks. One nitpick. > diff --git a/libelf/ChangeLog b/libelf/ChangeLog > index 594bec9..e5529e9 100644 > --- a/libelf/ChangeLog > +++ b/libelf/ChangeLog > @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ > +2017-07-19 Gustavo Romero <grom...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > + > + * elf.h: Add known type in notes segment descriptor for HTM SPRs. > + > 2017-04-20 Ulf Hermann <ulf.herm...@qt.io> > > * libelfP.h: Don't include config.h. > diff --git a/libelf/elf.h b/libelf/elf.h > index b6112d9..fa35203 100644 > --- a/libelf/elf.h > +++ b/libelf/elf.h > @@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ typedef struct > #define NT_PPC_SPE 0x101 /* PowerPC SPE/EVR registers */ > #define NT_PPC_VSX 0x102 /* PowerPC VSX registers */ > #define NT_386_TLS 0x200 /* i386 TLS slots (struct user_desc) */ > +#define NT_PPC_TM_SPR 0x10c /* PowerPC HW Transactional > Memory SPRs */ > #define NT_386_IOPERM 0x201 /* x86 io permission bitmap > (1=deny) */ > #define NT_X86_XSTATE 0x202 /* x86 extended state using > xsave */ > #define NT_S390_HIGH_GPRS 0x300 /* s390 upper register halves */ We normally keep elf.h in sync with glibc. Could you submit this elf.h change to libc-al...@sourceware.org? Then we resync elf.h from glibc to pull in the new constants. Thanks, Mark
