i386 registers during a syscall

[Julian Elischer]

Divacky Roman wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:18:56PM +0200, Attilio Rao wrote:
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>>2006/7/23, Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz>:
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>>>hi,
>>>
>>>I need to get content of %esi register as it was during a syscall. Should 
>>>I get
>>>this info from td->td_pcb->pcb_esi or td->td_frame->tf_esi?
>>>
>>>Is it so that trapframe is "content of registers when entering a kernel" 
>>>and
>>>pcb is "when leaving a kernel" ?
>>>
>>>thnx for info
>>>      
>>>
>>pcb and trapframe are used for very different purposes.
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>>The trapframe is built into the exception handler and it is used as
>>'registers gate' from userspace/kernelspace.
>>
>>The pcb (process control block) is used to handle registers saving
>>during a context switch, so it seems completely ortogonal to your
>>problem.
>>
>>BTW, it's unclear to me what do you need...
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>mov $123, %esi
>int $0x80		; syscall
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>I need the value of %esi (ie. 123)
>
>is td->td_frame->tf_esi what I need?
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yes

>thnx
>
>roman
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