Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:17 +0000
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>,
       zhangfx@lemote.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 09/10] tracing: reserve $12(t0) for
	mcount-ra-address of gcc 4.5
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:34:37PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:

> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> 
> A new option -mmcount-ra-address for gcc 4.5 have been sent by David
> Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> in the thread "MIPS: Add option to
> pass return address location to _mcount", which help to record the
> location of the return address(ra) for the function graph tracer of MIPS
> to hijack the return address easier and safer. that option used the
> $12(t0) register by default, so, we reserve it for it, and use t1,t2,t3
> instead of t0,t1,t2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>

Queued for 2.6.33 but due to patch 3/3 I won't propagate this series
immediately to linux-next.

Thanks!

  Ralf
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