Re: [PATCH v13 8/9] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel

[Stefani Seibold]

Am Sonntag, den 09.02.2014, 02:05 -0800 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> > EBX is a reserved as the base register when compiling with -fPIC.
> > Otherwise it get a "error: can't find a register in class 'BREG' while
> > reloading 'asm'".
> 
> In this case you have to dwarf annotate the push/pop
> 

Okay, but i have no idea why and how to supply dwarf2 unwind
annotations. Can you give my some hints?

> >  
> > > Also I if this calls syscall.S:__kernel_vsyscall it clobbers more registers
> > > (ecx at least?) and you need to describe that to gcc with a + 
> > 
> > Sine ECX is in use as the second parameter it is still marked as
> > clobbered. 
> 
> No input parameters are not clobbered.
> 

I will fix this.

> > I think it should word... As i know a system call will preserve all
> > register expect the EAX, which is marked as in and out for this asm()
> > directive. 
> 
> Yes the syscall does, but the vsyscall stub does not (for the !0x80 case)
> 
> > This is due the -m32 compilation, i will get a log of 
> > "warning: integer constant is too large for 'unsigned long' type",
> > because a unsigned long is only 32 bit.
> 
> Don't explain it to me, put it into a comment.
> 

I will place some comments in the source.

- Stefani


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