Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760137AbXIVJ0Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:26:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751493AbXIVJ0R (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:26:17 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35521 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752252AbXIVJ0Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:26:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:26:14 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: jblunck@suse.de, patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [24/45] x86: Introduce frame_pointer() and stack_pointer() Message-ID: <20070922092613.GA27827@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , jblunck@suse.de, patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200709211044.901175000@suse.de> <20070921204506.65C9F14EFF@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070921204506.65C9F14EFF@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 605 Lines: 14 On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: jblunck@suse.de > This patch defines frame_pointer() and stack_pointer() similar to the > already defined instruction_pointer(). Thus the oprofile code can be written > in a more readable fashion. Can we do these for all architectures, please? They're quite useful for non-trivial kprobes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/