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The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch of data streams. The kernel already supports DSCR value per thread but there is also a need in a ability to change it from an external process for the specific pid. The patch adds new register index PT_DSCR (index=44) which can be set/get by: ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, traced_process, PT_DSCR << 3, dscr); dscr = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, traced_process, PT_DSCR << 3, NULL); The patch does not increase PT_REGS_COUNT as the pt_regs struct has not been changed. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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