[PATCH] i386: Account spinlocks to the caller during profiling for !FP kernels

This ports the algorithm from x86-64 (with improvements) to i386.
Previously this only worked for frame pointer enabled kernels.
But spinlocks have a very simple stack frame that can be manually
analyzed. Do this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/spinlock.c b/kernel/spinlock.c
index fb524b009eef..9644a41e0bef 100644
--- a/kernel/spinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/spinlock.c
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
  *
  * This file contains the spinlock/rwlock implementations for the
  * SMP and the DEBUG_SPINLOCK cases. (UP-nondebug inlines them)
+ *
+ * Note that some architectures have special knowledge about the
+ * stack frames of these functions in their profile_pc. If you
+ * change anything significant here that could change the stack
+ * frame contact the architecture maintainers.
  */
 
 #include <linux/linkage.h>