[PATCH] exporting validate_sp

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Nov 3 04:40:37 EST 2005


On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:14:42PM -0800, Hien Nguyen wrote:
> This patch will export the validate_sp() function (part of dump_stack
> code).
> 
> I am developers for the systemtap project:
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
> 
> The SystemTap runtime includes a function for capturing a stack trace as
> a string.  For the ppc64 port, we need to have the validate_sp()
> function exported so it is accessible to our stack-trace function, which
> is part of a SystemTap-generated kernel module.
> 
> This patch should apply to kernel 2.6.14-rc5-mm1.

NACK.  this is not something that should be exported.  especiall not for
some odd crap that hopefully never will get merged.




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