Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 19:04 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
>
>>> struct pt_regs is part of the kernel ABI, it will not change.
>>>
>> I'm in favor about keeping the format identical between the variations of
>> each architecture. Note, however, that "struct pt_regs" won't do because it
>> may change with these variations.
>>
>
> "Part of the kernel ABI" makes it sound to me like it won't change.
> Who's right here? :)
Struct pt_regs is not ABI, and can (and has) changed on x86. It's not
suitable for a checkpoint structure because it only contains the
registers that the kernel trashes, not all usermode registers (on i386,
it leaves out %gs, for example). asm-x86/ptrace-abi.h does define stuff
that's fixed in stone; it expresses it in terms of a register array,
with constants defining what element is which register.
J
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