On 11/22/2014 05:13 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:56:30 +0530 Anshuman Khandual [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This patch adds four new core note sections for PowerPC transactional
memory and one core note section for general miscellaneous debug registers.
These addition of new elf core note sections extends the existing elf ABI
without affecting it in any manner.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted>
---
 include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
index ea9bf25..2260fc0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h

@@ -379,6 +379,11 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
 #define NT_PPC_VMX	0x100		/* PowerPC Altivec/VMX registers */
 #define NT_PPC_SPE	0x101		/* PowerPC SPE/EVR registers */
 #define NT_PPC_VSX	0x102		/* PowerPC VSX registers */
+#define NT_PPC_TM_SPR	0x103		/* PowerPC TM special registers */
+#define NT_PPC_TM_CGPR	0x104		/* PowerpC TM checkpointed GPR */
+#define NT_PPC_TM_CFPR	0x105		/* PowerPC TM checkpointed FPR */
+#define NT_PPC_TM_CVMX	0x106		/* PowerPC TM checkpointed VMX */
+#define NT_PPC_MISC	0x107		/* PowerPC miscellaneous registers */
 #define NT_386_TLS	0x200		/* i386 TLS slots (struct user_desc) */
 #define NT_386_IOPERM	0x201		/* x86 io permission bitmap (1=deny) */
 #define NT_X86_XSTATE	0x202		/* x86 extended state using xsave */

ack from me, if that was at all expected.

Thanks Andrew.

Please cc Shuah Khan [off-list ref] on the tools/testing/selftests
changes.

Sure, will do.