VPH/VPA seems to be documented.

On Tue, 26 May 2020 13:52:49 -0400 Gord Tomlin
<[email protected]> wrote:

:>On 2020-05-25 17:04, Ed Jaffe wrote:
:>> For the record, we diagnose issues using the events you've listed all 
:>> the time, no matter what the AMODE. In fact, we even have RMODE(64) code 
:>> nowadays.
:>> 
:>> There is a bug with 64-bit PTRACE formatting and we got a custom fix 
:>> from Jim Mulder for that (it will be GA with z/OS 2.5), but otherwise 
:>> everything we need is there.
:>> 
:>> What sort of information were you expecting that you did not see?
:>
:>I probably painted with too broad a brush in my initial post, and for 
:>that I apologize. The real offender is the PGM trace entry captured by 
:>PI=56 in the GTF trace specification:
:>
:>PGM..... 056      ASCB.... 00FBF880 CPU..... 0000     JOBN.... XXXXXXXX
:>                   OLD-PSW. 47543001 80000038 00000000 0149ADEE 
:>
:>                   TCB..... 008CBA08 VPH..... 7FFFF000 VPA..... 7FFFF800 
:>
:>                   MODN.... SVC-RES  R0...... 84C85DFA R1...... 00FFF5FF 
:>
:>                   R2...... 7F6ADD38 R3...... 7F6ADE34 R4...... 80000050 
:>
:>                   R5...... 7F6ADCE5 R6...... 008C46D0 R7...... 008C46FC 
:>
:>                   R8...... 00000050 R9...... 84C85936 R10..... 01D9AE20 
:>
:>                   R11..... 008C4C68 R12..... 84C85936 R13..... 008C4010 
:>
:>                   R14..... 00000000 R15..... 7FFFF000 
:>
:>          GMT-05/22/2020 14:40:47.514205  LOC-05/22/2020 10:40:47.514205
:>
:>Despite being in AMODE 64, it only presents 32-bit registers. From 
:>another source that I am prohibited by NDA from revealing, I know that 
:>the entire contents of R15 were 7FFFF000_7FFFF000; I know that if the 
:>problem was repeatable I could use SLIP (which does show register high 
:>halves) to trace in the vicinity of the program check. But this would 
:>have been immediately obvious if the GTF trace entry showed 64-bit 
:>registers.

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