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binutils-gdb/gdb/nat/x86-linux-tdesc.h
Christina Schimpe 6ef3896cfe gdb, gdbserver: Use xstate_bv for target description creation on x86.
The XSAVE function set is organized in state components, which are a set of
registers or parts of registers.  So-called XSAVE-supported features are
organized using state-component bitmaps, each bit corresponding to a
single state component.

The Intel Software Developer's Manual uses the term xstate_bv for a
state-component bitmap, which is defined as XCR0 | IA32_XSS.  The control
register XCR0 only contains a state-component bitmap that specifies user state
components, while IA32_XSS contains a state-component bitmap that specifies
supervisor state components.

Until now, XCR0 is used as input for target description creation in GDB.
However, a following patch will add userspace support for the CET shadow
stack feature by Intel.  The CET state is configured in IA32_XSS and consists
of 2 state components:
- State component 11 used for the 2 MSRs controlling user-mode
  functionality for CET (CET_U state)
- State component 12 used for the 3 MSRs containing shadow-stack pointers
  for privilege levels 0-2 (CET_S state).

Reading the CET shadow stack pointer register on linux requires a separate
ptrace call using NT_X86_SHSTK.  To pass the CET shadow stack enablement
state we would like to pass the xstate_bv value instead of xcr0 for target
description creation.  To prepare for that, we rename the xcr0 mask
values for target description creation to xstate_bv.  However, this
patch doesn't add any functional changes in GDB.

Future states specified in IA32_XSS such as CET will create a combined
xstate_bv_mask including xcr0 register value and its corresponding bit in
the state component bitmap.  This combined mask will then be used to create
the target descriptions.

Reviewed-By: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
2025-08-29 17:02:09 +00:00

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/* Target description related code for GNU/Linux x86 (i386 and x86-64).
Copyright (C) 2024-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef GDB_NAT_X86_LINUX_TDESC_H
#define GDB_NAT_X86_LINUX_TDESC_H
#include "gdbsupport/function-view.h"
struct target_desc;
struct x86_xsave_layout;
/* Return the target description for Linux thread TID.
The storage pointed to by XSTATE_BV_STORAGE and XSAVE_LAYOUT_STORAGE must
exist until the program (GDB or gdbserver) terminates, this storage is
used to cache the xstate_bv and xsave layout values. The values pointed to
by these arguments are only updated at most once, the first time this
function is called if the have_ptrace_getregset global is set to
TRIBOOL_UNKNOWN.
This function returns a target description based on the extracted xcr0
value along with other characteristics of the thread identified by TID.
This function can return nullptr if we encounter a machine configuration
for which a target_desc cannot be created. Ideally this would not be
the case, we should be able to create a target description for every
possible machine configuration. See amd64_linux_read_description and
i386_linux_read_description for cases when nullptr might be
returned. */
extern const target_desc *x86_linux_tdesc_for_tid
(int tid, uint64_t *xstate_bv_storage,
x86_xsave_layout *xsave_layout_storage);
#endif /* GDB_NAT_X86_LINUX_TDESC_H */