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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	       Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: partially available registers
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3livkq27g.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107261707.37547.pedro@codesourcery.com> (Pedro Alves's	message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:07:37 +0100")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:

Pedro> I glanced at:
Pedro>  <http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/2/10/4537101/thread>

Pedro> and now I'm not sure my last assumption with ptrace stopped tasks
Pedro> holds.  If not, then we have two distinct cases to handle -- x87 state
Pedro> has never been accessed; and x87 state in the xsave memory area is
Pedro> not up to date.  Is that true?  Is there a way to distinguish them?
Pedro> Is that what linux puts in the SW usable bytes [464..511]?

I do not know.  I think it would be best if H.J. weighed in on this.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-13 20:17 Tom Tromey
2011-07-14  4:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-07-15 20:52   ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-18  4:15     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-07-20 20:14       ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-20 18:49     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2011-07-20 20:46     ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-20 20:53       ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-24 13:48         ` Mark Kettenis
2011-07-25 15:50           ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-21  5:23       ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-07-21 20:27         ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-22 13:48           ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-07-22 15:42             ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-22 14:30       ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-22 15:40         ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-22 19:10           ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-22 19:19             ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-22 19:31               ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-22 21:58                 ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-22 22:20                 ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-26 17:08                   ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-26 17:13                     ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-26 19:46                       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-07-27 18:25                     ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-27 19:30                       ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-27 19:33                         ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-28  5:19                         ` Mark Kettenis

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