obj-$(CONFIG_SMP)              += smp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBES)          += kprobes.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_UDBG_16550)   += legacy_serial.o udbg_16550.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE)       += stacktrace.o
 
 pci64-$(CONFIG_PPC64)          += pci_dn.o isa-bridge.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PCI)              += pci_$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE).o $(pci64-y) \
 
--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * Stack trace utility
+ *
+ * Copyright 2008 Christoph Hellwig, IBM Corp.
+ *
+ *
+ *      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *      modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *      as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ *      2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/stacktrace.h>
+#include <asm/ptrace.h>
+#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+
+/*
+ * Save stack-backtrace addresses into a stack_trace buffer.
+ */
+void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
+{
+       unsigned long sp;
+
+       asm("mr %0,1" : "=r" (sp));
+
+       for (;;) {
+               unsigned long *stack = (unsigned long *) sp;
+               unsigned long newsp, ip;
+
+               if (!validate_sp(sp, current, STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD))
+                       return;
+
+               newsp = stack[0];
+               ip = stack[STACK_FRAME_LR_SAVE];
+
+               if (!trace->skip)
+                       trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ip;
+               else
+                       trace->skip--;
+
+               if (trace->nr_entries >= trace->max_entries)
+                       return;
+
+               sp = newsp;
+       }
+}