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| author | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2026-09-22 13:27:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2026-10-05 13:11:47 +0200 |
| commit | 676404c5a389a39e3a654d44eb6659cbba41ef32 (patch) | |
| tree | df3d705d85b772572a7c31a0a20ecf433cd696fc /tools/lib/python | |
| parent | c73c0e243836d5dfd1c617f73b6003b1ad40b2d1 (diff) | |
| parent | 3f0993fbe42be1213a4bff4c06fd5dfa048387a3 (diff) | |
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Merge patch series "powerpc: remove spufs coredump support"
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:
A task that dumps open spufs context adds a bunch of extra elf notes
describing the SPU state. It is the only reason do_coredump() unshares
the file descriptor table. We could make this conditional on spufs but
eh.
Nothing _new_ can consume those notes anymore. gdb dropped Cell
Broadband Engine debugging in 9.1 and binutils removed it in 2.34.
That's about 6 years ago. So no new program can actually read an SPU
note out of a core file and probably never did in recent history.
Note that the IBM Cell blades that shipped the Cell processor were
removed in commit 05bf59fbeef3 ("powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM
Cell Blades"). The PlayStation 3 is the only platform left and nothing
there produces or reads these notes.
So remove it.
* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/20260826-work-spufs-coredump-v1-0-579e72a7ab66@kernel.org:
coredump: stop unsharing the file descriptor table
powerpc: remove coredump support
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260826-work-spufs-coredump-v1-0-579e72a7ab66@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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