Changeset c8cd9a8 in mainline for kernel/arch/ia32/src/asm.S


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Timestamp:
2010-07-14T12:29:35Z (15 years ago)
Author:
Jakub Jermar <jakub@…>
Branches:
lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export
Children:
864e272
Parents:
a7220de
Message:

Preallocate space for the istate structure on the stack for the use by the
SYSENTER instruction.

File:
1 edited

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  • kernel/arch/ia32/src/asm.S

    ra7220de rc8cd9a8  
    175175
    176176/*
    177  * Size of the entire istate structure including the error word and the
    178  * hardware-saved part.
    179  */
    180 #define ISTATE_REAL_SIZE  (ISTATE_SOFT_SIZE + 24)
    181 
    182 /*
    183177 * The SYSENTER syscall mechanism can be used for syscalls with
    184178 * four or fewer arguments. To pass these four arguments, we
    … …  
    191185.global sysenter_handler
    192186sysenter_handler:
    193         subl $(ISTATE_REAL_SIZE), %esp
     187
     188        /*
     189         * Note that the space needed for the istate structure has been
     190         * preallocated on the stack by before_thread_runs_arch().
     191         */
    194192
    195193        /*
    … …  
    260258        movl ISTATE_OFFSET_ESP(%esp), %ecx
    261259
    262         addl $(ISTATE_REAL_SIZE), %esp
    263        
    264260        sysexit   /* return to userspace */
    265261
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