Re: [RFA][PATCH v4 2/5] S/390: Add TDB regset

Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-03T19:25:03Z

> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com
> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:02:32 +0200
>
> The z/Architecture transactional-execution facility includes support
> for a "transaction diagnostic block" (TDB) that is written by the
> hardware upon interrupted transactions. From a running inferior the
> TDB can be retrieved via PTRACE_GETREGSET, but ENODATA is returned if
> the inferior was interrupted outside transactions. Analogously, a
> core file conditionally contains the TDB, depending on whether the
> process died within a transaction or not.
>
> This patch represents the TDB as a new regset in GDB. A new feature
> "org.gnu.gdb.s390.tdb" is defined and new target descriptions are
> provided.

Thanks, the documentation parts are OK.