Re: the syscall stack frame and Context::regs method

Adam Lackorzynski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue Apr 28, 2015 at 15:42:14 +0800, watermirror wrote:
> i am reading the code about system call.
> 
> 
> after the sys_ipc_wrapper (in file kern/syscalls.cpp) is called.it get the thread's pointer by current_thread and then get the Syscall_frame. the code is like this:
> ...
> Thread *curr=current_thread();
> Syscall_frame *f = curr->regs();
> ...
> 
> i can not understand the relationship between curr->regs() and the system call's stack frame.

current_thread()->regs() points to the entry frame, i.e. the struct that
has all the register state from the user. Explained?


Adam
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