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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