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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2010-05-17 16:30:58 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2010-05-17 16:30:58 -0700
commit0b28330e39bbe0ffee4c56b09fc415fcec595ea3 (patch)
treefcf504879883763557e696eff81427b1ab78f76b /arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
parentDMAENGINE: extend the control command to include an arg (diff)
parentasync_tx: trim dma_async_tx_descriptor in 'no channel switch' case (diff)
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Merge branch 'ioat' into dmaengine
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
index 2d29752cbe16..22e507c8a556 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S
@@ -127,3 +127,29 @@ _GLOBAL(__setup_cpu_power7)
_GLOBAL(__restore_cpu_power7)
/* place holder */
blr
+
+/*
+ * Get a minimal set of registers for our caller's nth caller.
+ * r3 = regs pointer, r5 = n.
+ *
+ * We only get R1 (stack pointer), NIP (next instruction pointer)
+ * and LR (link register). These are all we can get in the
+ * general case without doing complicated stack unwinding, but
+ * fortunately they are enough to do a stack backtrace, which
+ * is all we need them for.
+ */
+_GLOBAL(perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs)
+ mr r6,r1
+ cmpwi r5,0
+ mflr r4
+ ble 2f
+ mtctr r5
+1: PPC_LL r6,0(r6)
+ bdnz 1b
+ PPC_LL r4,PPC_LR_STKOFF(r6)
+2: PPC_LL r7,0(r6)
+ PPC_LL r7,PPC_LR_STKOFF(r7)
+ PPC_STL r6,GPR1-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
+ PPC_STL r4,_NIP-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
+ PPC_STL r7,_LINK-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
+ blr