Commit-ID:  5df71b396b2d1fdd9d9f5a33e2eda5dc27c5632d
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/5df71b396b2d1fdd9d9f5a33e2eda5dc27c5632d
Author:     Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:06:57 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:08:53 +0200

perf/x86/64: Do report user_regs->cx while we are in syscall, in get_regs_user()

Yes, it is true that cx contains return address.
It's not clear why we trash it.
Stop doing that.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
index 7ab198a..a8d4e48 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
@@ -177,8 +177,6 @@ void perf_get_regs_user(struct perf_regs *regs_user,
                 * than just blindly copying user_regs.
                 */
                regs_user->abi = PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_64;
-               /* usually contains return address (same as ->ip) */
-               regs_user_copy->cx = -1;
        } else {
                /* We're probably in an interrupt or exception. */
                regs_user->abi = user_64bit_mode(user_regs) ?
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