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From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] tracing: MIPS: mcount.S: Fixup of the 32bit support with gcc 4.5
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 09:35:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273714511.26290.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEAE260.9060805@gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 10:16 -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 05/12/2010 06:23 AM, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> > From: Wu Zhangjin<wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> >
> > As the doc[1] of gcc-4.5 shows, the -mmcount-ra-address uses register
> > $12 to transfer the stack offset of the return address to the _mcount
> > function. in 64bit kernel, $12 is t0, but in 32bit kernel, it is t4, so,
> > we need to use $12 instead of t0 here to cover the 64bit and 32bit
> > support.
> >
> > [1] Gcc doc: MIPS Options
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/MIPS-Options.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin<wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> 
> Would it be better to do?:
> 
> #define MCOUNT_RA_ADDRESS_REG $12
> 
> s/t0/MCOUNT_RA_ADDRESS_REG/g

Good idea, will change it later.

Regards,
	Wu Zhangjin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-12 13:23 [PATCH v6 0/9] tracing: MIPS: add misc fixups and cleanups Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 1/9] tracing: MIPS: mcount.S: merge the same continuous #ifdefs Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/9] tracing: MIPS: mcount.S: Fixup of the 32bit support with gcc 4.5 Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 17:16   ` David Daney
2010-05-13  1:35     ` Wu Zhangjin [this message]
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 3/9] tracing: MIPS: mcount.S: cleanup the arguments of prepare_ftrace_return Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 4/9] tracing: MIPS: mcount.S: cleanup of the comments Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 5/9] tracing: MIPS: Fixup of the 32bit support with -mmcount-ra-address Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 6/9] tracing: MIPS: cleanup of the instructions Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 7/9] tracing: MIPS: Reduce the overhead of dynamic Function Tracer Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 8/9] tracing: MIPS: cleanup of function graph tracer Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 13:23 ` [PATCH 9/9] tracing: MIPS: cleanup of the address space checking Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-12 17:13   ` David Daney
2010-05-13  2:19     ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-05-13 16:13     ` Ralf Baechle
2010-05-13 16:17       ` David Daney

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