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    metag: ptrace · bc3966bf
    James Hogan authored
    
    
    The ptrace interface for metag provides access to some core register
    sets using the PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET operations. The
    details of the internal context structures is abstracted into user API
    structures to both ease use and allow flexibility to change the internal
    context layouts. Copyin and copyout functions for these register sets
    are exposed to allow signal handling code to use them to copy to and
    from the signal context.
    
    struct user_gp_regs (NT_PRSTATUS) provides access to the core general
    purpose register context.
    
    struct user_cb_regs (NT_METAG_CBUF) provides access to the TXCATCH*
    registers which contains information abuot a memory fault, unaligned
    access error or watchpoint. This can be modified to alter the way the
    fault is replayed on resume ("catch replay"), or to prevent the replay
    taking place.
    
    struct user_rp_state (NT_METAG_RPIPE) provides access to the state of
    the Meta read pipeline which can be used to hide memory latencies in
    hand optimised data loops.
    
    Extended DSP register state, DSP RAM, and hardware breakpoint registers
    aren't yet exposed through ptrace.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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