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authorLuis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>2022-06-28 12:57:34 +0100
committerLuis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>2022-07-19 15:24:27 +0100
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[AArch64] Support AArch64 MTE memory tag dumps in core files
The Linux kernel can dump memory tag segments to a core file, one segment per mapped range. The format and documentation can be found in the Linux kernel tree [1]. The following patch adjusts bfd and binutils so they can handle this new segment type and display it accordingly. It also adds code required so GDB can properly read/dump core file data containing memory tags. Upon reading, each segment that contains memory tags gets mapped to a section named "memtag". These sections will be used by GDB to lookup the tag data. There can be multiple such sections with the same name, and they are not numbered to simplify GDB's handling and lookup. There is another patch for GDB that enables both reading and dumping of memory tag segments. Tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 20.04. [1] Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst (Core Dump Support)
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
-rw-r--r--binutils/readelf.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index 0f5977b..6b7692d 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -4493,6 +4493,7 @@ get_aarch64_segment_type (unsigned long type)
switch (type)
{
case PT_AARCH64_ARCHEXT: return "AARCH64_ARCHEXT";
+ case PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE: return "AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE";
default: return NULL;
}
}