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[PATCH v2 2/7] arm: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer to calculate pt_regs address

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From: behanw at converseincode.com <hidden>
Date: 2014-09-06 00:06:57
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Subsystem: arm port, ptrace support, the rest · Maintainers: Russell King, Oleg Nesterov, Linus Torvalds

Revision v2 of 8 in this series; 1 review trailer.

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From: Behan Webster <redacted>

Use the global current_stack_pointer to calculate the end of the stack for
current_pt_regs()

Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jan-Simon M?ller <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 601264d..51622ba 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -154,9 +154,8 @@ static inline unsigned long user_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	return regs->ARM_sp;
 }
 
-#define current_pt_regs(void) ({				\
-	register unsigned long sp asm ("sp");			\
-	(struct pt_regs *)((sp | (THREAD_SIZE - 1)) - 7) - 1;	\
+#define current_pt_regs(void) ({ (struct pt_regs *)			\
+		((current_stack_pointer | (THREAD_SIZE - 1)) - 7) - 1;	\
 })
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
-- 
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