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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: discuss@x86-64.org
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH 2/3] reliable stack trace support (x86-64)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:25:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605181425.51442.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <446C7E61.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>


> >Maybe I'm dense but I still don't get - frame has a pt_regs so why 
> >isn't the caller allowed to know about that fact?
> 
> Because the fact that there is a regs fields and the PC is accessible through it is architecture specific, yet the
> caller (kernel/unwind.c) ought to be architecture independent.

I doubt we have any architecture where the instruction pointer is not in pt_regs,
but ok.

-Andi


      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-18 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-16 14:21 [PATCH 2/3] reliable stack trace support (x86-64) Jan Beulich
2006-05-16 15:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-16 16:04   ` Jan Beulich
2006-05-16 15:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-16 16:06   ` Jan Beulich
2006-05-16 17:05     ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-05-18  9:37       ` Jan Beulich
2006-05-18 10:20         ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-18 12:02           ` Jan Beulich
2006-05-18 12:25             ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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