5 /* Core file format: The core file is written in such a way that gdb
6 can understand it and provide useful information to the user (under
7 linux we use the 'trad-core' bfd). There are quite a number of
8 obstacles to being able to view the contents of the floating point
9 registers, and until these are solved you will not be able to view the
10 contents of them. Actually, you can read in the core file and look at
11 the contents of the user struct to find out what the floating point
13 The actual file contents are as follows:
14 UPAGE: 1 page consisting of a user struct that tells gdb what is present
15 in the file. Directly after this is a copy of the task_struct, which
16 is currently not used by gdb, but it may come in useful at some point.
17 All of the registers are stored as part of the upage. The upage should
18 always be only one page.
19 DATA: The data area is stored. We use current->end_text to
20 current->brk to pick up all of the user variables, plus any memory
21 that may have been malloced. No attempt is made to determine if a page
22 is demand-zero or if a page is totally unused, we just cover the entire
23 range. All of the addresses are rounded in such a way that an integral
24 number of pages is written.
25 STACK: We need the stack information in order to get a meaningful
26 backtrace. We need to write the data from (esp) to
27 current->start_stack, so we round each of these off in order to be able
28 to write an integer number of pages.
29 The minimum core file size is 3 pages, or 12288 bytes.
33 * Pentium III FXSR, SSE support
34 * Gareth Hughes <gareth@valinux.com>, May 2000
36 * Provide support for the GDB 5.0+ PTRACE_{GET|SET}FPXREGS requests for
37 * interacting with the FXSR-format floating point environment. Floating
38 * point data can be accessed in the regular format in the usual manner,
39 * and both the standard and SIMD floating point data can be accessed via
40 * the new ptrace requests. In either case, changes to the FPU environment
41 * will be reflected in the task's state as expected.
44 struct user_i387_struct
{
52 long st_space
[20]; /* 8*10 bytes for each FP-reg = 80 bytes */
55 struct user_fxsr_struct
{
66 long st_space
[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each FP-reg = 128 bytes */
67 long xmm_space
[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each XMM-reg = 128 bytes */
72 * This is the old layout of "struct pt_regs", and
73 * is still the layout used by user mode (the new
74 * pt_regs doesn't have all registers as the kernel
75 * doesn't use the extra segment registers)
77 struct user_regs_struct
{
78 long ebx
, ecx
, edx
, esi
, edi
, ebp
, eax
;
79 unsigned short ds
, __ds
, es
, __es
;
80 unsigned short fs
, __fs
, gs
, __gs
;
82 unsigned short cs
, __cs
;
84 unsigned short ss
, __ss
;
87 /* When the kernel dumps core, it starts by dumping the user struct -
88 this will be used by gdb to figure out where the data and stack segments
89 are within the file, and what virtual addresses to use. */
91 /* We start with the registers, to mimic the way that "memory" is returned
92 from the ptrace(3,...) function. */
93 struct user_regs_struct regs
; /* Where the registers are actually stored */
94 /* ptrace does not yet supply these. Someday.... */
95 int u_fpvalid
; /* True if math co-processor being used. */
96 /* for this mess. Not yet used. */
97 struct user_i387_struct i387
; /* Math Co-processor registers. */
98 /* The rest of this junk is to help gdb figure out what goes where */
99 unsigned long int u_tsize
; /* Text segment size (pages). */
100 unsigned long int u_dsize
; /* Data segment size (pages). */
101 unsigned long int u_ssize
; /* Stack segment size (pages). */
102 unsigned long start_code
; /* Starting virtual address of text. */
103 unsigned long start_stack
; /* Starting virtual address of stack area.
104 This is actually the bottom of the stack,
105 the top of the stack is always found in the
107 long int signal
; /* Signal that caused the core dump. */
108 int reserved
; /* No longer used */
109 struct user_pt_regs
* u_ar0
; /* Used by gdb to help find the values for */
111 struct user_i387_struct
* u_fpstate
; /* Math Co-processor pointer. */
112 unsigned long magic
; /* To uniquely identify a core file */
113 char u_comm
[32]; /* User command that was responsible */
116 #define NBPG PAGE_SIZE
118 #define HOST_TEXT_START_ADDR (u.start_code)
119 #define HOST_STACK_END_ADDR (u.start_stack + u.u_ssize * NBPG)
121 #endif /* _I386_USER_H */