[RFC] Add support for PPC Altivec registers in gcore

[Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>]

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The attached patch makes gcore dump the contents of PPC Altivec registers.

However, I'm not happy with declaring a bunch of PPC-specific stuff in
gregset.h. But since FPXREGSET was there, I put everything in that file
as well.

I'm open to comments about how to make this better, so please give me
some thoughts.

Thanks and regards,


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Carlos Eduardo Seo
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center
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2007-10-26  Carlos Eduardo Seo  <cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

	* linux-nat.c (linux_nat_do_thread_registers): Added
	support for PPC Altivec registers.
	* ppc-linux-nat.c: Removed definitions of SIZEOF_VRREGS
	and gdb_vrregset_t.
	* gregset.h: Added definitions of SIZEOF_VRREGS and
	gdb_vrregset_t.
	(fill_vrregset): Declare.

Index: src/gdb/linux-nat.c
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/linux-nat.c
+++ src/gdb/linux-nat.c
@@ -2616,6 +2616,7 @@ linux_nat_do_thread_registers (bfd *obfd
 {
   gdb_gregset_t gregs;
   gdb_fpregset_t fpregs;
+  gdb_vrregset_t vrregs;
 #ifdef FILL_FPXREGSET
   gdb_fpxregset_t fpxregs;
 #endif
@@ -2676,6 +2677,21 @@ linux_nat_do_thread_registers (bfd *obfd
 					       note_size,
 					       &fpxregs, sizeof (fpxregs));
 #endif
+
+  if (core_regset_p
+      && (regset = gdbarch_regset_from_core_section (gdbarch, ".reg-ppc-vmx",
+						     sizeof (vrregs))) != NULL
+      && regset->collect_regset != NULL)
+    regset->collect_regset (regset, regcache, -1,
+			    &vrregs, sizeof (vrregs));
+  else
+    fill_vrregset (regcache, &vrregs);
+
+  note_data = (char *) elfcore_write_ppc_vmx (obfd,
+					      note_data,
+					      note_size,
+					      &vrregs, sizeof (vrregs));
+
   return note_data;
 }
 
Index: src/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
+++ src/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
@@ -79,38 +79,6 @@
 #define PTRACE_GETSIGINFO    0x4202
 #endif
 
-/* This oddity is because the Linux kernel defines elf_vrregset_t as
-   an array of 33 16 bytes long elements.  I.e. it leaves out vrsave.
-   However the PTRACE_GETVRREGS and PTRACE_SETVRREGS requests return
-   the vrsave as an extra 4 bytes at the end.  I opted for creating a
-   flat array of chars, so that it is easier to manipulate for gdb.
-
-   There are 32 vector registers 16 bytes longs, plus a VSCR register
-   which is only 4 bytes long, but is fetched as a 16 bytes
-   quantity. Up to here we have the elf_vrregset_t structure.
-   Appended to this there is space for the VRSAVE register: 4 bytes.
-   Even though this vrsave register is not included in the regset
-   typedef, it is handled by the ptrace requests.
-
-   Note that GNU/Linux doesn't support little endian PPC hardware,
-   therefore the offset at which the real value of the VSCR register
-   is located will be always 12 bytes.
-
-   The layout is like this (where x is the actual value of the vscr reg): */
-
-/* *INDENT-OFF* */
-/*
-   |.|.|.|.|.....|.|.|.|.||.|.|.|x||.|
-   <------->     <-------><-------><->
-     VR0           VR31     VSCR    VRSAVE
-*/
-/* *INDENT-ON* */
-
-#define SIZEOF_VRREGS 33*16+4
-
-typedef char gdb_vrregset_t[SIZEOF_VRREGS];
-
-
 /* On PPC processors that support the the Signal Processing Extension
    (SPE) APU, the general-purpose registers are 64 bits long.
    However, the ordinary Linux kernel PTRACE_PEEKUSER / PTRACE_POKEUSER
@@ -687,7 +655,7 @@ store_register (const struct regcache *r
     }
 }
 
-static void
+void
 fill_vrregset (const struct regcache *regcache, gdb_vrregset_t *vrregsetp)
 {
   int i;
Index: src/gdb/gregset.h
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/gregset.h
+++ src/gdb/gregset.h
@@ -72,4 +72,40 @@ extern void fill_fpxregset (const struct
 			    gdb_fpxregset_t *fpxregs, int regno);
 #endif
 
+/* For PPC Altivec support  */
+
+/* This oddity is because the Linux kernel defines elf_vrregset_t as
+   an array of 33 16 bytes long elements.  I.e. it leaves out vrsave.
+   However the PTRACE_GETVRREGS and PTRACE_SETVRREGS requests return
+   the vrsave as an extra 4 bytes at the end.  I opted for creating a
+   flat array of chars, so that it is easier to manipulate for gdb.
+
+   There are 32 vector registers 16 bytes longs, plus a VSCR register
+   which is only 4 bytes long, but is fetched as a 16 bytes
+   quantity. Up to here we have the elf_vrregset_t structure.
+   Appended to this there is space for the VRSAVE register: 4 bytes.
+   Even though this vrsave register is not included in the regset
+   typedef, it is handled by the ptrace requests.
+
+   Note that GNU/Linux doesn't support little endian PPC hardware,
+   therefore the offset at which the real value of the VSCR register
+   is located will be always 12 bytes.
+
+   The layout is like this (where x is the actual value of the vscr reg): */
+
+/* *INDENT-OFF* */
+/*
+   |.|.|.|.|.....|.|.|.|.||.|.|.|x||.|
+   <------->     <-------><-------><->
+     VR0           VR31     VSCR    VRSAVE
+*/
+/* *INDENT-ON* */
+
+#define SIZEOF_VRREGS 33*16+4
+
+typedef char gdb_vrregset_t[SIZEOF_VRREGS];
+
+extern void
+fill_vrregset (const struct regcache *regcache, gdb_vrregset_t *vrregsetp);
+
 #endif

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