Re: [PATCH] [24/45] x86: Introduce frame_pointer() and stack_pointer()

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: [email protected]
> This patch defines frame_pointer() and stack_pointer() similar to the
> already defined instruction_pointer(). Thus the oprofile code can be written
> in a more readable fashion.

Can we do these for all architectures, please?  They're quite useful for
non-trivial kprobes.

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