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Commit f4738ff7 authored by Ammar Faizi's avatar Ammar Faizi Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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tools/nolibc: i386: Implement syscall with 6 arguments

On i386, the 6th argument of syscall goes in %ebp. However, both Clang
and GCC cannot use %ebp in the clobber list and in the "r" constraint
without using -fomit-frame-pointer. To make it always available for
any kind of compilation, the below workaround is implemented.

  1) Push the 6-th argument.
  2) Push %ebp.
  3) Load the 6-th argument from 4(%esp) to %ebp.
  4) Do the syscall (int $0x80).
  5) Pop %ebp (restore the old value of %ebp).
  6) Add %esp by 4 (undo the stack pointer).

Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2e335ac54db44f1d8496583d97f9dab0@AcuMS.aculab.com


Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Acked-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmmar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 1590c598
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