Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add support for Intel PKRU register to GDB and GDBserver.

["Sturm, Michael" <michael dot sturm at intel dot com>]

Thank you , Eli!

Thanks and Regards,
Michael

On 01/02/2017 14:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Michael Sturm <michael.sturm@intel.com>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, michael.sturm@intel.com
> > Date: Wed,  1 Feb 2017 14:03:25 +0100
> >
> > This patch adds support for the registers added by the
> > Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) feature.
> > Native and remote debugging are covered by this patch.
> >
> > The XSAVE area is extended with a new state containing
> > the 32-bit wide PKRU register. The new register is added to
> > amd64-avx-mpx_avx512-* tdesc, thus it is renamed accordingly. Also,
> > respective xstate mask X86_XSTATE_AVX_MPX_AVX512_MASK is renamed to
> > X86_XSTATE_AVX_MPX_AVX512_PKU_MASK to reflect the new feature set
> > it supports.
> >
> > For more information, please refer to the
> > Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's
> > Manual - Septemper 2015
> > http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/
> > manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-manual-325462.pdf
> OK for the documentation parts.
>
> Thanks.

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