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>
/*
* 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
x86_backtrace(struct pt_regs * const regs, unsigned int depth)
{
struct frame_head *head = (struct frame_head *)frame_pointer(regs);
- unsigned long stack = kernel_trap_sp(regs);
if (!user_mode_vm(regs)) {
+ unsigned long stack = kernel_stack_pointer(regs);
if (depth)
dump_trace(NULL, regs, (unsigned long *)stack, 0,
&backtrace_ops, &depth);