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author | Dave Martin <[email protected]> | 2017-10-31 15:50:53 +0000 |
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committer | Will Deacon <[email protected]> | 2017-11-03 15:24:11 +0000 |
commit | 27e64b4be4b863d884f3ec1686a2f744ae93a1b9 (patch) | |
tree | ae548b3f473891f3aec3b0cbc53d44173fb101e7 /tools/perf/scripts/python/check-perf-trace.py | |
parent | c7f5828bf77dcbd61d51f4736c1d5aa35663fbb4 (diff) |
regset: Add support for dynamically sized regsets
Currently the regset API doesn't allow for the possibility that
regsets (or at least, the amount of meaningful data in a regset)
may change in size.
In particular, this results in useless padding being added to
coredumps if a regset's current size is smaller than its
theoretical maximum size.
This patch adds a get_size() function to struct user_regset.
Individual regset implementations can implement this function to
return the current size of the regset data. A regset_size()
function is added to provide callers with an abstract interface for
determining the size of a regset without needing to know whether
the regset is dynamically sized or not.
The only affected user of this interface is the ELF coredump code:
This patch ports ELF coredump to dump regsets with their actual
size in the coredump. This has no effect except for new regsets
that are dynamically sized and provide a get_size() implementation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <[email protected]>
Cc: H. J. Lu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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