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authorBehan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>2014-09-27 00:31:04 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2014-11-13 23:58:00 +0000
commit0abc08baf2ddf61a37d375a9fb832be612f9c5a5 (patch)
tree6816254445cec2b457592a43c89dfb21fdce7005 /arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
parent2d605a3029726b881fc9df7fae75e6bf08d8a526 (diff)
ARM: 8170/1: Add global named register current_stack_pointer for ARM
Define a global named register for current_stack_pointer. The use of this new variable guarantees that both gcc and clang can access this register in C code. Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com> Reviewed-by: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
index fc44d3761f9e..bb435152189f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ struct thread_info {
#define init_stack (init_thread_union.stack)
/*
+ * how to get the current stack pointer in C
+ */
+register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm ("sp");
+
+/*
* how to get the thread information struct from C
*/
static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void) __attribute_const__;