[PATCH] Add regs_return_value() helper
Add the regs_return_value() macro to extract the return value in an
architecture agnostic manner, given the pt_regs.
Other architecture maintainers may want to add similar helpers.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h b/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h
index a4a0e52..d505f50 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
{
return ((regs->xcs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK) | (regs->eflags & VM_MASK)) >= USER_RPL;
}
+
#define instruction_pointer(regs) ((regs)->eip)
+#define regs_return_value(regs) ((regs)->eax)
+
extern unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */