Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 00/28] Add new powerpc specific ELF core notes
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
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From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:40:27 +0200
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On 07/04/2016 23:49, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7 April 2016 7:23:46 pm AEST, Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 16/02/2016 09:59, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> 	This patch series adds twelve new ELF core note sections which can
>>> be used with existing ptrace request PTRACE_GETREGSET-SETREGSET for
>> accessing
>>> various transactional memory and other miscellaneous debug register
>> sets on
>>> powerpc platform.
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> This series is required to handle TM state in CRIU.
>> Is there a chance to get it upstream soon ?
> 
> We were waiting on the gdb support to make sure it had some testing. If it's working for CRIU that would be a good data point, have you actually tested it with CRIU?

I just started integrating it in CRIU, my basic tests didn't report any
issue with the new ptrace API, but I can't state that it is bug free ;)

Cheers,
Laurent.