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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Scheduling and context switch in Xenomai: - reg
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On 03/03/2012 02:02 PM, SUBRAMANIAN NATESAN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During the context switch in scheduling, could you please let me know,
> where the process/thread's information or state is stored and which
> function call is responsible for it?

Linux uses switch_to, xenomai uses xnarch_switch_to. These are defined
differently for each architecture and may be either macros or functions
depending on the architecture. The registers are loaded and saved from
the task control block.

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                                                                Gilles.