Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc, ptrace: Enable support for transactional memory register sets

From: Pedro Alves <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:13:36 +0100

On 05/05/14 08:54, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This patch enables get and set of transactional memory related register
> sets through PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET interface by implementing
> four new powerpc specific register sets i.e REGSET_TM_SPR, REGSET_TM_CGPR,
> REGSET_TM_CFPR, REGSET_CVMX support corresponding to these following new
> ELF core note types added previously in this regard.
> 
> 	(1) NT_PPC_TM_SPR
> 	(2) NT_PPC_TM_CGPR
> 	(3) NT_PPC_TM_CFPR
> 	(4) NT_PPC_TM_CVMX

Sorry that I couldn't tell this from the code, but, what does the
kernel return when the ptracer requests these registers and the
program is not in a transaction?  Specifically I'm wondering whether
this follows the same semantics as the s390 port.

-- 
Pedro Alves