linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [24/45] x86: Introduce frame_pointer() and stack

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Message-Id: <200710011848.36855.andi@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:48:36 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	jblunck@...e.de, patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [24/45] x86: Introduce frame_pointer() and stack_pointer()

On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:26:14 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: jblunck@...e.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.

I'll leave that to the architecture maintainers. Besides many probably
don't have a frame pointer.

-Andi



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