x86: Add pt_regs register and stack access APIs
Add following APIs for accessing registers and stack entries from pt_regs. These APIs are required by kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace. Some other debugging tools might be able to use it too. - regs_query_register_offset(const char *name) Query the offset of "name" register. - regs_query_register_name(unsigned int offset) Query the name of register by its offset. - regs_get_register(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int offset) Get the value of a register by its offset. - regs_within_kernel_stack(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr) Check the address is in the kernel stack. - regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(struct pt_regs *reg, unsigned int nth) Get Nth entry of the kernel stack. (N >= 0) - regs_get_argument_nth(struct pt_regs *reg, unsigned int nth) Get Nth argument at function call. (N >= 0) Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813203444.31965.26374.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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