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    x86: user_regset helpers · bae3f7c3
    Roland McGrath authored
    
    
    This adds some inlines to linux/regset.h intended for arch code to use in
    its user_regset get and set functions.  These make it pretty easy to deal
    with the interface's optional kernel-space or user-space pointers and its
    generalized access to a part of the register data at a time.
    
    In simple cases where the internal data structure matches the exported
    layout (core dump format), a get function can be nothing but a call to
    user_regset_copyout, and a set function a call to user_regset_copyin.
    
    In other cases the exported layout is usually made up of a few pieces each
    stored contiguously in a different internal data structure.  These helpers
    make it straightforward to write a get or set function by processing each
    contiguous chunk of the data in order.  The start_pos and end_pos arguments
    are always constants, so these inlines collapse to a small amount of code.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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