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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-02-10 09:51:46 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-11 12:40:45 +0100 |
| commit | 253f29a4ae9cc6cdc7b94f96517f27a93885a6ce (patch) | |
| tree | 09942e565938a6bac216b1725ccf607e01d09b20 /arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h | |
| parent | aa78bcfa01dec3cdbde3cda098ce32abbd9c3bf6 (diff) | |
x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h index 5d98d0b68ff..2fd5926fb97 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ #define asmregparm __attribute__((regparm(3))) /* + * For syscalls that need a pointer to the pt_regs struct (ie. fork). + * The regs pointer is passed in %eax as the first argument. The + * remaining function arguments remain on the stack. + */ +#define ptregscall __attribute__((regparm(1))) + +/* * Make sure the compiler doesn't do anything stupid with the * arguments on the stack - they are owned by the *caller*, not * the callee. This just fools gcc into not spilling into them, |