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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sysenter.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sysenter.S | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sysenter.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sysenter.S index 4daefb2ec1b281..76b72815940337 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sysenter.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sysenter.S @@ -7,6 +7,21 @@ * for details. */ +/* + * The caller puts arg2 in %ecx, which gets pushed. The kernel will use + * %ecx itself for arg2. The pushing is because the sysexit instruction + * (found in entry.S) requires that we clobber %ecx with the desired %esp. + * User code might expect that %ecx is unclobbered though, as it would be + * for returning via the iret instruction, so we must push and pop. + * + * The caller puts arg3 in %edx, which the sysexit instruction requires + * for %eip. Thus, exactly as for arg2, we must push and pop. + * + * Arg6 is different. The caller puts arg6 in %ebp. Since the sysenter + * instruction clobbers %esp, the user's %esp won't even survive entry + * into the kernel. We store %esp in %ebp. Code in entry.S must fetch + * arg6 from the stack. + */ .text .globl __kernel_vsyscall .type __kernel_vsyscall,@function |