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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/elf.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ptrace.h | 15 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h index a8c4af073ce9..d8e6e61ad9ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/elf.h +++ b/include/linux/elf.h @@ -349,7 +349,11 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr { #define ELF_OSABI ELFOSABI_NONE #endif -/* Notes used in ET_CORE */ +/* + * Notes used in ET_CORE. Architectures export some of the arch register sets + * using the corresponding note types via the PTRACE_GETREGSET and + * PTRACE_SETREGSET requests. + */ #define NT_PRSTATUS 1 #define NT_PRFPREG 2 #define NT_PRPSINFO 3 diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h index 56f2d63a5cbb..dbfa821d5a6e 100644 --- a/include/linux/ptrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h @@ -27,6 +27,21 @@ #define PTRACE_GETSIGINFO 0x4202 #define PTRACE_SETSIGINFO 0x4203 +/* + * Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets + * using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump). + * + * This interface usage is as follows: + * struct iovec iov = { buf, len}; + * + * ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov); + * + * On the successful completion, iov.len will be updated by the kernel, + * specifying how much the kernel has written/read to/from the user's iov.buf. + */ +#define PTRACE_GETREGSET 0x4204 +#define PTRACE_SETREGSET 0x4205 + /* options set using PTRACE_SETOPTIONS */ #define PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD 0x00000001 #define PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK 0x00000002 |