/******************************************************************************* Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2012. This file is part of the Sortix C Library. The Sortix C Library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The Sortix C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the Sortix C Library. If not, see . x86/fork.s Assembly functions related to forking x86 processes. *******************************************************************************/ .section .text .globl __call_tfork_with_regs .type __call_tfork_with_regs, @function __call_tfork_with_regs: pushl %ebp movl %esp, %ebp movl 8(%ebp), %edx # flags parameter, edx need not be preserved. # The actual system call expects a struct tforkregs_x86 containing the state # of each register in the child. Since we create an identical copy, we # simply set each member of the structure to our own state. Note that since # the stack goes downwards, we create it in the reverse order. pushfl pushl %ebp pushl %esp pushl %esi pushl %edi pushl %edx pushl %ecx pushl %ebx pushl $0 # rax, result of sfork is 0 for the child. pushl $after_fork # rip, child will start execution from here. # Call tfork with a nice pointer to our structure. Note that %edi contains # the flag parameter that this function accepted. pushl %esp pushl %edx call tfork after_fork: # The value in %eax determines whether we are child or parent. There is no # need to clean up the stack from the above pushes, leavel sets %esp to %ebp # which does that for us. leavel retl .size __call_tfork_with_regs, . - __call_tfork_with_regs