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    powerpc: Split user/kernel definitions of struct pt_regs · 002af939
    Michael Ellerman authored
    We use a shared definition for struct pt_regs in uapi/asm/ptrace.h.
    That means the layout of the structure is ABI, ie. we can't change it.
    
    That would be fine if it was only used to describe the user-visible
    register state of a process, but it's also the struct we use in the
    kernel to describe the registers saved in an interrupt frame.
    
    We'd like more flexibility in the content (and possibly layout) of the
    kernel version of the struct, but currently that's not possible.
    
    So split the definition into a user-visible definition which remains
    unchanged, and a kernel internal one.
    
    At the moment they're still identical, and we check that at build
    time. That's because we have code (in ptrace etc.) that assumes that
    they are the same. We will fix that code in future patches, and then
    we can break the strict symmetry between the two structs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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