x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate

Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the
core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc.

This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets
supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure.

Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state
is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is
in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence
we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or
the state is not saved in the memory layout.

And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset
interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented
in the memory layout.

First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate
mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).

The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the
core file, using the above mentioned memory layout.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/user.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/user.h
index 999873b22e7..24532c7da3d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/user.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/user.h
@@ -1,5 +1,63 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_USER_H
+#define _ASM_X86_USER_H
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 # include "user_32.h"
 #else
 # include "user_64.h"
 #endif
+
+#include <asm/types.h>
+
+struct user_ymmh_regs {
+        /* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg */
+        __u32 ymmh_space[64];
+};
+
+struct user_xsave_hdr {
+        __u64 xstate_bv;
+        __u64 reserved1[2];
+        __u64 reserved2[5];
+};
+
+/*
+ * The structure layout of user_xstateregs, used for exporting the
+ * extended register state through ptrace and core-dump (NT_X86_XSTATE note)
+ * interfaces will be same as the memory layout of xsave used by the processor
+ * (except for the bytes 464..511, which can be used by the software) and hence
+ * the size of this structure varies depending on the features supported by the
+ * processor and OS. The size of the structure that users need to use can be
+ * obtained by doing:
+ *     cpuid_count(0xd, 0, &eax, &ptrace_xstateregs_struct_size, &ecx, &edx);
+ * i.e., cpuid.(eax=0xd,ecx=0).ebx will be the size that user (debuggers, etc.)
+ * need to use.
+ *
+ * For now, only the first 8 bytes of the software usable bytes[464..471] will
+ * be used and will be set to OS enabled xstate mask (which is same as the
+ * 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).  Users (analyzing core dump
+ * remotely, etc.) can use this mask as well as the mask saved in the
+ * xstate_hdr bytes and interpret what states the processor/OS supports
+ * and what states are in modified/initialized conditions for the
+ * particular process/thread.
+ *
+ * Also when the user modifies certain state FP/SSE/etc through the
+ * ptrace interface, they must ensure that the xsave_hdr.xstate_bv
+ * bytes[512..519] of the memory layout are updated correspondingly.
+ * i.e., for example when FP state is modified to a non-init state,
+ * xsave_hdr.xstate_bv's bit 0 must be set to '1', when SSE is modified to
+ * non-init state, xsave_hdr.xstate_bv's bit 1 must to be set to '1', etc.
+ */
+#define USER_XSTATE_FX_SW_WORDS 6
+#define USER_XSTATE_XCR0_WORD   0
+
+struct user_xstateregs {
+        struct {
+                __u64 fpx_space[58];
+                __u64 xstate_fx_sw[USER_XSTATE_FX_SW_WORDS];
+        } i387;
+        struct user_xsave_hdr xsave_hdr;
+        struct user_ymmh_regs ymmh;
+        /* further processor state extensions go here */
+};
+
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_USER_H */