Re: [PATCH v9 09/10] tracing: reserve $12(t0) formcount-ra-address of gcc 4.5

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:34:37PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:

> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A new option -mmcount-ra-address for gcc 4.5 have been sent by David
> Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in the thread "MIPS: Add option to
> pass return address location to _mcount", which help to record the
> location of the return address(ra) for the function graph tracer of MIPS
> to hijack the return address easier and safer. that option used the
> $12(t0) register by default, so, we reserve it for it, and use t1,t2,t3
> instead of t0,t1,t2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx>

Queued for 2.6.33 but due to patch 3/3 I won't propagate this series
immediately to linux-next.

Thanks!

  Ralf
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