tree b11d7246f1933f80c33c1a5cff6291ab142e87dc
parent 4206d3aa1978e44f58bfa4e1c9d8d35cbf19c187
author Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 1201696305 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1201696305 +0100

x86: user_regset helpers

This adds some inlines to linux/regset.h intended for arch code to use in
its user_regset get and set functions.  These make it pretty easy to deal
with the interface's optional kernel-space or user-space pointers and its
generalized access to a part of the register data at a time.

In simple cases where the internal data structure matches the exported
layout (core dump format), a get function can be nothing but a call to
user_regset_copyout, and a set function a call to user_regset_copyin.

In other cases the exported layout is usually made up of a few pieces each
stored contiguously in a different internal data structure.  These helpers
make it straightforward to write a get or set function by processing each
contiguous chunk of the data in order.  The start_pos and end_pos arguments
are always constants, so these inlines collapse to a small amount of code.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>