Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip v5 06/10] kprobes/x86: Cleanup save/restore registers

[Frederic W. <fwe...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:40:24AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Frederic Weisbecker <fwe...@gm...> writes:
> 
> > [...]
> >> +#define SAVE_REGS_STRING		\
> >> +#define RESTORE_REGS_STRING		\
> >
> > BTW, do you really need to push/pop every registers
> > before/after calling a probe handler?
> 
> It's part of the definition of a kprobe, that a populated
> pt_regs* value is passed.  Clients can rely on that in order
> to access registers etc.
> 
> - FChE

Yeah I made a confusion. Sorry.