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authorElliott Hughes <enh@google.com>2012-08-03 13:55:56 -0700
committerandroid code review <noreply-gerritcodereview@google.com>2012-08-03 13:55:56 -0700
commitaea5f00df4704a618331e16473b552e54bed269b (patch)
treedcacd8495782709e5441e349b84168322d069587
parent1510795fec5aa8b8700a08200f37f6e57dea8d04 (diff)
parentc164f2a9694fa8c373ec72d237ee16b412aa5c53 (diff)
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Merge "bionic: modify syscall to use 6 registers to pass parameter."
-rw-r--r--libc/arch-x86/bionic/syscall.S41
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/libc/arch-x86/bionic/syscall.S b/libc/arch-x86/bionic/syscall.S
index 8370f0be0..49d6f8de8 100644
--- a/libc/arch-x86/bionic/syscall.S
+++ b/libc/arch-x86/bionic/syscall.S
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
/*
* Generic syscall call.
- * Upon entry
- * %eax: system call number
- * %ebx: arg0 to system call
- * %ecx: arg..
- * %edx: arg..
- * %esi: arg..
- * %edi: arg..
- * We push these (to save them) load them up with the
- * values from the calling frame (not all will actually be valid)
- * and make the syscall.
+ * Upon entry:
+ * %eax: system call number - caller save
+ * %ebx: arg0 to system call - callee save
+ * %ecx: arg1 - caller save
+ * %edx: arg2 - caller save
+ * %esi: arg3 - callee save
+ * %edi: arg4 - callee save
+ * %ebp: arg5 - callee save
*/
#include <sys/linux-syscalls.h>
@@ -20,26 +18,37 @@
.align 4
syscall:
+ # Push the callee save registers.
push %ebx
push %esi
push %edi
- mov 16(%esp),%eax
- mov 20(%esp),%ebx
- mov 24(%esp),%ecx
- mov 28(%esp),%edx
- mov 32(%esp),%esi
- mov 36(%esp),%edi
+ push %ebp
+ # Load all the arguments from the calling frame.
+ # (Not all will be valid, depending on the syscall.)
+ mov 20(%esp),%eax
+ mov 24(%esp),%ebx
+ mov 28(%esp),%ecx
+ mov 32(%esp),%edx
+ mov 36(%esp),%esi
+ mov 40(%esp),%edi
+ mov 44(%esp),%ebp
+
+ # Make the system call.
int $0x80
+ # Error?
cmpl $-4095, %eax
jb 1f
+ # Yes, so set errno.
negl %eax
pushl %eax
call __set_errno
addl $4, %esp
orl $-1, %eax
1:
+ # Restore the callee save registers.
+ pop %ebp
pop %edi
pop %esi
pop %ebx