From: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:29:29 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: arm64: LLVMLinux: Add current_stack_pointer() for arm64
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3680^2~30^2^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98f12c0a80ae19316c1b32f610d094aaae2c5fc0;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

arm64: LLVMLinux: Add current_stack_pointer() for arm64

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>
Reviewed-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3337a10e0d0cbc9225cefc23aa7a604b698367ed)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 23a3c4791d86..5093806522e1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define init_thread_info	(init_thread_union.thread_info)
 #define init_stack		(init_thread_union.stack)
 
+/*
+ * how to get the current stack pointer from C
+ */
+register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm ("sp");
+
 /*
  * how to get the thread information struct from C
  */