linux/include
Dave Martin 27e64b4be4 regset: Add support for dynamically sized regsets
Currently the regset API doesn't allow for the possibility that
regsets (or at least, the amount of meaningful data in a regset)
may change in size.

In particular, this results in useless padding being added to
coredumps if a regset's current size is smaller than its
theoretical maximum size.

This patch adds a get_size() function to struct user_regset.
Individual regset implementations can implement this function to
return the current size of the regset data.  A regset_size()
function is added to provide callers with an abstract interface for
determining the size of a regset without needing to know whether
the regset is dynamically sized or not.

The only affected user of this interface is the ELF coredump code:
This patch ports ELF coredump to dump regsets with their actual
size in the coredump.  This has no effect except for new regsets
that are dynamically sized and provide a get_size() implementation.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-11-03 15:24:11 +00:00
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keys net: rxrpc: Replace time_t type with time64_t type 2017-08-29 10:16:00 +01:00
kvm
linux regset: Add support for dynamically sized regsets 2017-11-03 15:24:11 +00:00
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