Hi Vignesh, Vignesh Balasubramanian <vigbalas@xxxxxxx> writes: > Add a new .note section containing type, size, offset and flags of > every xfeature that is present. > > This information will be used by the debuggers to understand the XSAVE > layout of the machine where the core file is dumped, and to read XSAVE > registers, especially during cross-platform debugging. > > Co-developed-by: Jini Susan George <jinisusan.george@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jini Susan George <jinisusan.george@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Vignesh Balasubramanian <vigbalas@xxxxxxx> > --- > arch/Kconfig | 9 +++ > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + > arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h | 2 - > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + > arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 7 +++ > arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/elf.h | 2 +- > include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 + > 8 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) IMHO you should split the changes to replace ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES with CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES into a lead-up patch. cheers
