Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2011-09-08

Doubt regarding asmlinkage

From: rohan puri <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-08 05:13:45

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
[off-list ref]wrote:
Hi :)

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:40, rohan puri [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hi Mulyadi,

Thanks for the response. I do agree with the issue concerning the no.of
registers available are less for 32 bit to that of 64 bit.

But even in this case if parameters are more than the no of register for
32
quoted
bit, then also before executing int 80h interrupt it stores the
parameters
quoted
in the register and after that system call dispatcher puts them on the
kernel stack of that process. So, how the case where more than no of
registers are the parameters to the system call is handled.

Please don't top post :)

Regarding passing the parameters when it is more than number of
registers used in x86 32 bit, AFAIK it's using EDX to contain the
address of user space memory that contains the data, later it will be
copied to kernel stack IIRC.

--
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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Sorry for top posting. :)

Got it now. Thanks.

Regards,
Rohan.
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