* [PATCH v1] gdb/linux: add helpers to read AT_HWCAP3 and AT_HWCAP4
@ 2026-07-27 17:28 Matthieu Longo
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From: Matthieu Longo @ 2026-07-27 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches
Cc: Luis Machado, Luis Machado, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Matthieu Longo
Add linux_get_hwcap3 and linux_get_hwcap4 helpers to GDB and gdbserver,
mirroring the existing linux_get_hwcap and linux_get_hwcap2 interfaces.
The new helpers retrieve the AT_HWCAP3 and AT_HWCAP4 auxiliary vector
entry either from explicitly supplied auxv data or from the current
inferior.
This prepares for future features that depend on HWCAP3 and HWCAP4
capability bits.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
---
gdb/linux-tdep.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
gdb/linux-tdep.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
gdbserver/linux-low.cc | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
gdbserver/linux-low.h | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/linux-tdep.c b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
index 30a279248ec..a11427edf61 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
@@ -3215,6 +3215,44 @@ linux_get_hwcap2 ()
current_inferior ()->arch ());
}
+/* See linux-tdep.h. */
+
+CORE_ADDR
+linux_get_hwcap3 (const std::optional<gdb::byte_vector> &auxv,
+ target_ops *target, gdbarch *gdbarch)
+{
+ return linux_get_hwcap_helper (auxv, target, gdbarch, AT_HWCAP3);
+}
+
+/* See linux-tdep.h. */
+
+CORE_ADDR
+linux_get_hwcap3 ()
+{
+ return linux_get_hwcap3 (target_read_auxv (),
+ current_inferior ()->top_target (),
+ current_inferior ()->arch ());
+}
+
+/* See linux-tdep.h. */
+
+CORE_ADDR
+linux_get_hwcap4 (const std::optional<gdb::byte_vector> &auxv,
+ target_ops *target, gdbarch *gdbarch)
+{
+ return linux_get_hwcap_helper (auxv, target, gdbarch, AT_HWCAP4);
+}
+
+/* See linux-tdep.h. */
+
+CORE_ADDR
+linux_get_hwcap4 ()
+{
+ return linux_get_hwcap4 (target_read_auxv (),
+ current_inferior ()->top_target (),
+ current_inferior ()->arch ());
+}
+
/* Display whether the gcore command is using the
/proc/PID/coredump_filter file. */
diff --git a/gdb/linux-tdep.h b/gdb/linux-tdep.h
index 1dd0b3d2a17..8f7e7aafbd0 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-tdep.h
+++ b/gdb/linux-tdep.h
@@ -91,6 +91,28 @@ extern CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap2 (const std::optional<gdb::byte_vector> &auxv,
extern CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap2 ();
+/* Fetch the AT_HWCAP3 entry from auxv data AUXV. Use TARGET and GDBARCH to
+ parse auxv entries.
+
+ On error, 0 is returned. */
+extern CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap3 (const std::optional<gdb::byte_vector> &auxv,
+ struct target_ops *target, gdbarch *gdbarch);
+
+/* Same as the above, but obtain all the inputs from the current inferior. */
+
+extern CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap3 ();
+
+/* Fetch the AT_HWCAP4 entry from auxv data AUXV. Use TARGET and GDBARCH to
+ parse auxv entries.
+
+ On error, 0 is returned. */
+extern CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap4 (const std::optional<gdb::byte_vector> &auxv,
+ struct target_ops *target, gdbarch *gdbarch);
+
+/* Same as the above, but obtain all the inputs from the current inferior. */
+
+extern CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap4 ();
+
/* Returns true if ADDR belongs to a shadow stack memory range. If this
is the case, assign the shadow stack memory range to RANGE
[start_address, end_address). */
diff --git a/gdbserver/linux-low.cc b/gdbserver/linux-low.cc
index f1be62225e2..c4daba0bf40 100644
--- a/gdbserver/linux-low.cc
+++ b/gdbserver/linux-low.cc
@@ -70,6 +70,14 @@
#define AT_HWCAP2 26
#endif
+#ifndef AT_HWCAP3
+#define AT_HWCAP3 29
+#endif
+
+#ifndef AT_HWCAP4
+#define AT_HWCAP4 30
+#endif
+
/* Some targets did not define these ptrace constants from the start,
so gdbserver defines them locally here. In the future, these may
be removed after they are added to asm/ptrace.h. */
@@ -7235,6 +7243,26 @@ linux_get_hwcap2 (int pid, int wordsize)
return hwcap2;
}
+/* See linux-low.h. */
+
+CORE_ADDR
+linux_get_hwcap3 (int pid, int wordsize)
+{
+ CORE_ADDR hwcap3 = 0;
+ linux_get_auxv (pid, wordsize, AT_HWCAP3, &hwcap3);
+ return hwcap3;
+}
+
+/* See linux-low.h. */
+
+CORE_ADDR
+linux_get_hwcap4 (int pid, int wordsize)
+{
+ CORE_ADDR hwcap4 = 0;
+ linux_get_auxv (pid, wordsize, AT_HWCAP4, &hwcap4);
+ return hwcap4;
+}
+
#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_REGSETS
void
initialize_regsets_info (struct regsets_info *info)
diff --git a/gdbserver/linux-low.h b/gdbserver/linux-low.h
index 60154240ddd..b274d3cb370 100644
--- a/gdbserver/linux-low.h
+++ b/gdbserver/linux-low.h
@@ -977,4 +977,12 @@ CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap (int pid, int wordsize);
CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap2 (int pid, int wordsize);
+/* Fetch the AT_HWCAP3 entry from the auxv vector, where entries are length
+ WORDSIZE, of process with pid PID. If no entry was found, return 0. */
+CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap3 (int pid, int wordsize);
+
+/* Fetch the AT_HWCAP4 entry from the auxv vector, where entries are length
+ WORDSIZE, of process with pid PID. If no entry was found, return 0. */
+CORE_ADDR linux_get_hwcap4 (int pid, int wordsize);
+
#endif /* GDBSERVER_LINUX_LOW_H */
--
2.55.0
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