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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: wyang1 <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, 32-bit: Fix invalid stack address while in softirq
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:54:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346946887.1680.31.camel@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906153647.GB8285@erda.amd.com>

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 17:36 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:

> I meant:
> 
> unsigned long kernel_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> 	unsigned long context = (unsigned long)regs & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1);
> 	unsigned long sp = (unsigned long)&regs->sp;
> 	struct thread_info *tinfo;
> 
> 	if (context == (sp & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)))
> 		return sp;
> 	
> 	tinfo = (struct thread_info *)context;
> 	if (tinfo->previous_esp)
> 		return tinfo->previous_esp;
> 
> 	return (unsigned long)regs;
> }
> 
> -Robert
> 
> > 
> > Maybe this is even better.
> > 
> >

Yeah, this is probably the safest.

Thanks,

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-27  1:32 [PATCH 1/1] x86/oprofile: Fix the calltrace upon profiling some specified events with oprofile Wei.Yang
2012-08-28  9:17 ` Robert Richter
2012-09-03  5:28   ` wyang1
2012-09-04 10:24 ` Robert Richter
2012-09-06  1:30   ` wyang1
2012-09-06 10:04     ` [PATCH] x86, 32-bit: Fix invalid stack address while in softirq Robert Richter
2012-09-06 13:14       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-09-06 15:02         ` Robert Richter
2012-09-06 15:14           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-09-06 15:34             ` Robert Richter
2012-09-06 15:36               ` Robert Richter
2012-09-06 15:54                 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-09-07  5:21                   ` wyang1
2012-09-12 13:50       ` [PATCH -v2] " Robert Richter
2012-09-12 14:04         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-10-01 12:21         ` Robert Richter
2012-11-01 21:34         ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: " tip-bot for Robert Richter
2012-11-13 15:17           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 15:56             ` Robert Richter
2012-11-15 21:53         ` tip-bot for Robert Richter
2012-11-21  7:34         ` tip-bot for Robert Richter
2012-11-21  7:35         ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Export kernel_stack_pointer() for modules tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin

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