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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-01-05 17:46:56 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-13 10:09:12 +0100
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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.c24
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 017d937..73554a3 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.
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