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Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES
Date 2016-02-22 23:50 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> wrote:
> XSAVES uses compacted format and is a kernel instruction. The kernel
> should use standard-format, non-supervisor state data for PTRACE.
>

> +/*
> + * Convert from kernel XSAVES compacted format to standard format and copy
> + * to a ptrace buffer. It supports partial copy but pos always starts from
> + * zero. This is called from xstateregs_get() and there we check the cpu
> + * has XSAVES.
> + */
> +int copyout_from_xsaves(unsigned int pos, unsigned int count, void *kbuf,
> +                       void __user *ubuf, const struct xregs_state *xsave)

Now that you've written this code, can it be shared with the signal
handling code?

--Andy


--Andy

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[PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-22 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-22 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-22 22:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-22 23:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-22 23:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-02-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-02-23 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-23 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-23 00:00 +0100

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