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Luis Machado
68cffbbd44 [AArch64] MTE corefile support
Teach GDB how to dump memory tags for AArch64 when using the gcore command
and how to read memory tag data back from a core file generated by GDB
(via gcore) or by the Linux kernel.

The format is documented in the Linux Kernel documentation [1].

Each tagged memory range (listed in /proc/<pid>/smaps) gets dumped to its
own PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE segment. A section named ".memtag" is created for each
of those segments when reading the core file back.

To save a little bit of space, given MTE tags only take 4 bits, the memory tags
are stored packed as 2 tags per byte.

When reading the data back, the tags are unpacked.

I've added a new testcase to exercise the feature.

Build-tested with --enable-targets=all and regression tested on aarch64-linux
Ubuntu 20.04.

[1] Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst (Core Dump Support)
2022-07-19 15:24:31 +01:00