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+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#ifndef _PPC_USER_H
+#define _PPC_USER_H
+
+/* Adapted from <asm-alpha/user.h> */
+
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
+
+/*
+ * Core file format: The core file is written in such a way that gdb
+ * can understand it and provide useful information to the user (under
+ * linux we use the `trad-core' bfd, NOT the osf-core).  The file contents
+ * are as follows:
+ *
+ *  upage: 1 page consisting of a user struct that tells gdb
+ *	what is present in the file.  Directly after this is a
+ *	copy of the task_struct, which is currently not used by gdb,
+ *	but it may come in handy at some point.  All of the registers
+ *	are stored as part of the upage.  The upage should always be
+ *	only one page long.
+ *  data: The data segment follows next.  We use current->end_text to
+ *	current->brk to pick up all of the user variables, plus any memory
+ *	that may have been sbrk'ed.  No attempt is made to determine if a
+ *	page is demand-zero or if a page is totally unused, we just cover
+ *	the entire range.  All of the addresses are rounded in such a way
+ *	that an integral number of pages is written.
+ *  stack: We need the stack information in order to get a meaningful
+ *	backtrace.  We need to write the data from usp to
+ *	current->start_stack, so we round each of these in order to be able
+ *	to write an integer number of pages.
+ */
+struct user {
+	struct pt_regs	regs;			/* entire machine state */
+	size_t		u_tsize;		/* text size (pages) */
+	size_t		u_dsize;		/* data size (pages) */
+	size_t		u_ssize;		/* stack size (pages) */
+	unsigned long	start_code;		/* text starting address */
+	unsigned long	start_data;		/* data starting address */
+	unsigned long	start_stack;		/* stack starting address */
+	long int	signal;			/* signal causing core dump */
+	struct regs *	u_ar0;			/* help gdb find registers */
+	unsigned long	magic;			/* identifies a core file */
+	char		u_comm[32];		/* user command name */
+};
+
+#define NBPG			PAGE_SIZE
+#define UPAGES			1
+#define HOST_TEXT_START_ADDR	(u.start_code)
+#define HOST_DATA_START_ADDR	(u.start_data)
+#define HOST_STACK_END_ADDR	(u.start_stack + u.u_ssize * NBPG)
+
+#endif /* _PPC_USER_H */
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */