Merge commit 'tip/perfcounters-for-linus' into oprofile/master

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/regs.c b/arch/x86/boot/regs.c
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+/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ *   Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation; author H. Peter Anvin
+ *
+ *   This file is part of the Linux kernel, and is made available under
+ *   the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or (at your
+ *   option) any later version; incorporated herein by reference.
+ *
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+/*
+ * Simple helper function for initializing a register set.
+ *
+ * Note that this sets EFLAGS_CF in the input register set; this
+ * makes it easier to catch functions which do nothing but don't
+ * explicitly set CF.
+ */
+
+#include "boot.h"
+
+void initregs(struct biosregs *reg)
+{
+	memset(reg, 0, sizeof *reg);
+	reg->eflags |= X86_EFLAGS_CF;
+	reg->ds = ds();
+	reg->es = ds();
+	reg->fs = fs();
+	reg->gs = gs();
+}