Re: [PATCH v7 28/36] tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs

Steven Rostedt
2024-02-15T16:10:02Z

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 00:12:40 +0900
"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>
> Add ftrace_partial_regs() which converts the ftrace_regs to pt_regs.
> If the architecture defines its own ftrace_regs, this copies partial
> registers to pt_regs and returns it. If not, ftrace_regs is the same as
> pt_regs and ftrace_partial_regs() will return ftrace_regs::regs.

This says what this patch is doing and not why it is doing it.

-- Steve

>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
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> Changes from previous series: NOTHING, just forward ported.
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