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    [PATCH] ppc64: Fix __get_SP() · fb9d4325
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
    
    __get_SP used to be a function call which meant we allocated a stack
    frame before calling it. This meant the SP it returned was one frame
    below the current function. Lets call that bogusSP (and the real one
    SP).
    
    The new dump_stack was being tail call optimised so it remained one
    frame above bogusSP. dump_stack would then store below SP (as the ABI
    allows us to) and would stomp over the back link that bogusSP pointed
    to (__get_SP had set the back link up so it worked sometimes, just not
    all the time).
    
    Fix this by just making __get_SP an inline that returns the current SP.
    fb9d4325
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