Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Add following APIs for accessing registers and stack entries from pt_regs.
You forgot to state who calls these functions/why are they added?
Who only has strings for registers?
I can see the point of having a function for nth argument though,
that's useful.
> +static inline unsigned long regs_get_argument_nth(struct pt_regs *regs,
> + unsigned n)
> +{
> + if (n < NR_REGPARMS) {
> + switch (n) {
> + case 0:
> + return regs->ax;
> + case 1:
> + return regs->dx;
> + case 2:
> + return regs->cx;
[....]
That could be done shorter with a offsetof table.
> + if (n < NR_REGPARMS) {
> + switch (n) {
> + case 0:
> + return regs->di;
> + case 1:
> + return regs->si;
> + case 2:
> + return regs->dx;
> + case 3:
> + return regs->cx;
> + case 4:
> + return regs->r8;
> + case 5:
> + return regs->r9;
and that too.
-Andi
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