Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidiana...@linaro.org> writes: > Update aarch64-core.xml to include field definitions for PSTATE, which > in gdb is modelled in the cpsr (current program status register) > pseudo-register, named after the actual cpsr register in armv7. > > Defining the fields layout of the register allows easy inspection of for > example, the current exception level (EL): > > For example. Before booting a Linux guest, EL=2, but after booting and > Ctrl-C'ing in gdb, we get EL=0: > > (gdb) info registers $cpsr > cpsr 0x20402009 [ SP EL=2 BTYPE=0 PAN C ] > (gdb) cont > Continuing. > ^C > Thread 2 received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. > 0x0000ffffaaff286c in ?? () > (gdb) info registers $cpsr > cpsr 0x20001000 [ EL=0 BTYPE=0 SSBS C ] > > The aarch64-core.xml has been updated to match exactly the version > retrieved from upstream gdb, retrieved in 2025-05-19 from HEAD commit > 9f4dc0b137c86f6ff2098cb1ab69442c69d6023d. > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=tree;h=9f4dc0b137c86f6ff2098cb1ab69442c69d6023d > > Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidiana...@linaro.org>
Queued to gdbstub/next, thanks. -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
