On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:40:36PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: [...] > > Looks like struct pt_regs.trap already contains the information that could > > be used to tell 'sc' from 'scv': if (pt_regs.trap & ~0xf) == 0x3000, then > > it's scv. Is my reading of arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h correct? > > Hmm, I think it is. Certainly in the kernel regs struct it is, I had in > my mind that we put it to 0xc00 when populating the user struct for > compatibility, but it seems not. So I guess this would work. OK, can we state that (pt_regs.trap & ~0xf) == 0x3000 is a part of the scv ABI, so it's not going to change and could be relied upon by userspace? Could this be documented in Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst, please? -- ldv
