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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2010-01-05 23:46:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-01-13 10:09:12 +0100 |
| commit | aa5add93e92019018e905146f8c3d3f8e3c08300 (patch) | |
| tree | 75339844170bc9ff62a1044f09a3e8f9c14c354a /arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | |
| parent | tracing/kprobe: Drop function argument access syntax (diff) | |
| download | linux-aa5add93e92019018e905146f8c3d3f8e3c08300.tar.xz linux-aa5add93e92019018e905146f8c3d3f8e3c08300.zip | |
x86/ptrace: Remove unused regs_get_argument_nth API
Because of dropping function argument syntax from kprobe-tracer,
we don't need this API anymore.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100105224656.19431.92588.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index 017d937639fe..73554a3aae8c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -140,30 +140,6 @@ static const int arg_offs_table[] = { #endif }; -/** - * regs_get_argument_nth() - get Nth argument at function call - * @regs: pt_regs which contains registers at function entry. - * @n: argument number. - * - * regs_get_argument_nth() returns @n th argument of a function call. - * Since usually the kernel stack will be changed right after function entry, - * you must use this at function entry. If the @n th entry is NOT in the - * kernel stack or pt_regs, this returns 0. - */ -unsigned long regs_get_argument_nth(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int n) -{ - if (n < ARRAY_SIZE(arg_offs_table)) - return *(unsigned long *)((char *)regs + arg_offs_table[n]); - else { - /* - * The typical case: arg n is on the stack. - * (Note: stack[0] = return address, so skip it) - */ - n -= ARRAY_SIZE(arg_offs_table); - return regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(regs, 1 + n); - } -} - /* * does not yet catch signals sent when the child dies. * in exit.c or in signal.c. |