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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Questions on the stack for IA64
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:24:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404131724.i3DHOiF18600@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040413051722.84368.qmail@web61202.mail.yahoo.com>

>>>>> Luck, Tony wrote on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:26 AM

> >Rahul Chaturvedi wrote on Monday, April 12, 2004 10:17 PM
> >d.) The pfs register seems to point to a location in
> >0xcxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Shouldn't this point to some
> >accessible memory location (from usermode)?
>
> someone else can take this one?

ar.pfs is not a memory address pointer. See section 3.1.8.10 of
ia64 software developer's manual, volume 1 for proper way to
decode that register (FYI, bit [63-62] is previous privilege
level, which is 3 in the above case).

- Ken



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-13 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13  5:17 Questions on the stack for IA64 Rahul Chaturvedi
2004-04-13 16:25 ` Luck, Tony
2004-04-13 17:24 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2004-04-14  5:05 ` Rahul Chaturvedi
2004-04-14  5:19 ` David Mosberger
2004-04-14  5:29 ` Ian Wienand
2004-04-14  5:34 ` Rahul Chaturvedi
2004-04-14 16:06 ` Luck, Tony

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