Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 14/26] 14: x86: x86 specific probehandling

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:05 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +/*
> + * @reg: reflects the saved state of the task
> + * @vaddr: the virtual address to jump to.
> + * Return 0 on success or a -ve number on error.
> + */
> +void set_ip(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long vaddr)
> +{
> +       regs->ip = vaddr;
> +} 

Since we have the cross-architecture function:
instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs*) to read the thing, this ought to be
called set_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs*, unsigned long) or
somesuch.
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