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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2009-05-11 17:03:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-12 00:39:52 +0200 |
| commit | 7b6c6c77732ca1d2498eda7eabb64f9648896e96 (patch) | |
| tree | f5eccbffc028d396e454898db1edc66e7e6a4666 /arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | |
| parent | 3c598766a2bae1b208470e7cc934ac462561e3cb (diff) | |
x86, 32-bit: fix kernel_trap_sp()
Use ®s->sp instead of regs for getting the top of stack in kernel mode.
(on x86-64, regs->sp always points the top of stack)
[ Impact: Oprofile decodes only stack for backtracing on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
[ v2: rename the API to kernel_stack_pointer(), move variable inside ]
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090511210300.17332.67549.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h index e304b66abee..624f133943e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h @@ -187,14 +187,15 @@ static inline int v8086_mode(struct pt_regs *regs) /* * X86_32 CPUs don't save ss and esp if the CPU is already in kernel mode - * when it traps. So regs will be the current sp. + * when it traps. The previous stack will be directly underneath the saved + * registers, and 'sp/ss' won't even have been saved. Thus the '®s->sp'. * * This is valid only for kernel mode traps. */ -static inline unsigned long kernel_trap_sp(struct pt_regs *regs) +static inline unsigned long kernel_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs) { #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - return (unsigned long)regs; + return (unsigned long)(®s->sp); #else return regs->sp; #endif |