On little endian the stack frame marker appears reserved when dumping memory sequentially, as is typical in xmon or gdb, eg:
c000000004733e40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 |................| c000000004733e50 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 |................| c000000004733e60 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 |................| c000000004733e70 5347455200000000 0000000000000000 |SGER............| c000000004733e80 a700000000000000 708897f7ff7f0000 |........p.......| c000000004733e90 0073428fff7f0000 208997f7ff7f0000 |.sB..... .......| c000000004733ea0 0100000000000000 ffffffffffffffff |................| c000000004733eb0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 |................| To make it easier to recognise, reverse the value on little endian, so it always appears as "REGS", eg: c000000004733e70 5245475300000000 0000000000000000 |REGS............| Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h index 6c23d1d25dc7..2efec6d87049 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h @@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ struct pt_regs #define STACK_FRAME_WITH_PT_REGS (STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD + sizeof(struct pt_regs)) +// Always displays as "REGS" in memory dumps +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN #define STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER ASM_CONST(0x52454753) +#else +#define STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER ASM_CONST(0x53474552) +#endif #ifdef __powerpc64__ -- 2.37.3
