Re: ABI defined register usage within function calls

2013-07-15 Thread JiveTalkin
Hi Ben. Thanks for the information. Your reply is eagerly awaited. Regards. On Jul 15, 2013 3:50 AM, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt [via linuxppc]" < ml-node+s10917n7373...@n7.nabble.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 04:38 -0700, JiveTalkin wrote: > > Moderator..can you chan

Re: ABI defined register usage within function calls

2013-07-12 Thread JiveTalkin
Moderator..can you change the subject of this to "Understanding register usage as per ABI rules for functions" ?? Additionally, doesn't anyone have anything to say about this? -- View this message in context: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/ABI-defined-register-usage-within-function-calls-

ABI defined register usage within function calls

2013-07-10 Thread JiveTalkin
Hello. I would like to monitor the value of one of the parameters (within the stack frame) that have been passed as part of a context switch (from process context to interrupt context). Hence I have been looking at the call flow of a typical exception (which can be thought of as a synchronous exce