[4/4] S390: Document guarded-storage register support
Commit Message
This documents the newly added support for guarded-storage registers on
IBM z.
---
gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
Comments
> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:40:16 +0200
>
> This documents the newly added support for guarded-storage registers on
> IBM z.
> ---
> gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
This is OK, but please also include the ChangeLog changes which
reflect these. (Actually, I see that you didn't include ChangeLog
entries for any of your changes.)
Thanks.
On Thu, Sep 21 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:40:16 +0200
>>
>> This documents the newly added support for guarded-storage registers on
>> IBM z.
>> ---
>> gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
>> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 8 ++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> This is OK, but please also include the ChangeLog changes which
> reflect these. (Actually, I see that you didn't include ChangeLog
> entries for any of your changes.)
Oops. For some reason I only included ChangeLog entries for the first
patch. Right, I'll add the missing ones.
Thanks for reviewing the doc part.
--
Andreas
On Thu, Sep 21 2017, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:40:16 +0200
>>>
>>> This documents the newly added support for guarded-storage registers on
>>> IBM z.
>>> ---
>>> gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
>>> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 8 ++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> This is OK, but please also include the ChangeLog changes which
>> reflect these. (Actually, I see that you didn't include ChangeLog
>> entries for any of your changes.)
>
> Oops. For some reason I only included ChangeLog entries for the first
> patch. Right, I'll add the missing ones.
OK, I pushed the series after adding the missing ChangeLog entries:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=96235dc1ac3730c4e490d19db2e8287c0a40f307
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=1b63490c9173f8c9770b7885def720516aa9b9f8
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ad3396348e0ebb61fdf71cff307bac08175ed366
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=289e23aa03084b22c73ebdcf18371f1e6666ead0
--
Andreas
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
*** Changes since GDB 8.0
+* GDB now supports access to the guarded-storage-control registers and the
+ software-based guarded-storage broadcast control registers on IBM z14.
+
* On Unix systems, GDB now supports transmitting environment variables
that are to be set or unset to GDBserver. These variables will
affect the environment to be passed to the remote inferior.
@@ -41855,6 +41855,14 @@ through @samp{f15} to present the 128-bit wide vector registers
contain the 128-bit wide vector registers @samp{v16} through
@samp{v31}.
+The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.s390.gs} feature is optional. It should contain
+the 64-bit wide guarded-storage-control registers @samp{gsd},
+@samp{gssm}, and @samp{gsepla}.
+
+The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.s390.gsbc} feature is optional. It should contain
+the 64-bit wide guarded-storage broadcast control registers
+@samp{bc_gsd}, @samp{bc_gssm}, and @samp{bc_gsepla}.
+
@node Sparc Features
@subsection Sparc Features
@cindex target descriptions, sparc32 features