From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
To: Songmao Tian <kingkongmao@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: handle_sys question
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:46:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBBED1F.5010307@cavium.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADSewLWvfVsQob-y5Q9mc31JpecHFd6=5dRhKxdH3VvT0HXJZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/22/2012 02:40 AM, Songmao Tian wrote:
> Hello all:
> In handle_sys there's a
> 50
> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S;h=a632bc144efa1b9ca977a582864530e33ee039cb;hb=72c04af9a2d57b7945cf3de8e71461bd80695d50#l50>
> sw a3, PT_R26(sp) # save a3 for syscall restarting
>
> I woner why it need to save a3 in R26(k0) slot in the stack?
>
It has to go somewhere. The K0 and K1 slots aren't used to save other
things.
David Daney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-22 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 9:40 handle_sys question Songmao Tian
2012-05-22 19:46 ` David Daney [this message]
2012-05-23 8:17 ` Songmao Tian
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