From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
systemtap-ml <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -tip 4/9] power: add kernel_trap_sp()
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:03:34 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320073334.GA10519@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237527760.25062.567.camel@pasglop>
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:42:40PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:10 -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Add kernel_trap_sp() on powerpc, based on systemtap's runtime/regs.h.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
>
> I haven't looked at the usage of it, but it's weird to have something
> call "kernel_trap_sp" that returns the -user- stack pointer... is
> this really what's expected here ?
In the current usage scenario, this gets called only with a pt_regs
snapshot from in kernel. user_stack_pointer() is a misnomer though;
all this macro needs is to return the stack pointer from the given
pt_regs.
Ananth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 21:10 [RFC][PATCH -tip 4/9] power: add kernel_trap_sp() Masami Hiramatsu
2009-03-20 5:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-03-20 7:33 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [this message]
2009-03-20 10:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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