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[binutils-gdb] S390: Document guarded-storage register support
- From: Andreas Arnez <arnez at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 25 Sep 2017 14:04:49 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] S390: Document guarded-storage register support
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=289e23aa03084b22c73ebdcf18371f1e6666ead0
commit 289e23aa03084b22c73ebdcf18371f1e6666ead0
Author: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Sep 25 16:02:24 2017 +0200
S390: Document guarded-storage register support
This documents the newly added support for guarded-storage registers on
IBM z.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Advertise support for guarded-storage registers on IBM z.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (S/390 and System z Features): Document the new
features org.gnu.gdb.s390.gs and org.gnu.gdb.s390.gsbc.
Diff:
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 6eb730f..b6283f6 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2017-09-25 Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+ * NEWS: Advertise support for guarded-storage registers on IBM z.
+
+2017-09-25 Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
* s390-linux-nat.c (have_regset_gs): New static variable.
(s390_linux_fetch_inferior_registers): Handle guarded-storage
control block and guarded-storage broadcast control regsets.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 549f511..9246659 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -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.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index a3612db..3e74640 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-09-25 Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (S/390 and System z Features): Document the new
+ features org.gnu.gdb.s390.gs and org.gnu.gdb.s390.gsbc.
+
2017-09-21 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (qXfer:threads:read): Add documentation for handle
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 6b32089..9905ff6 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -41857,6 +41857,14 @@ 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