Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

From: David Howells (David.Howells@nexor.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 08:02:07 EST


David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> You don't need to add another handler. I already overloaded the lcall7
> handler by passing an extra int into it to tell it the type of call which is
> causing it to be invoked. Values which are already used are 7 for iBCS calls
> (lcall7) and 0x27 for Solaris/x86 syscalls (lcall 0x27). Pick another
> number, and possibly reassign those two to 1 and 2 respectively because it's
> cleaner like that.

But where do I get the other argument (struct pt_regs *) from? A normal Linux
syscall does not appear to have access to such a beast...

David Howells
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