Re: [RFC][PATCH -tip 4/9] power: add kernel_trap_sp()

From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 03:35:31 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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
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