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From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
To: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] Introduce functions to restart a process
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:23:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FC4E0C.7050008@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224285098-573-9-git-send-email-major@openvz.org>

Hello Andrey !


> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> index 109792b..a4848a3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
>  	GET_THREAD_INFO(%ebp)
>  	popl %eax
>  	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -4
> +ret_from_fork_tail:
>  	pushl $0x0202			# Reset kernel eflags
>  	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
>  	popfl
> @@ -233,6 +234,26 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
>  	CFI_ENDPROC
>  END(ret_from_fork)
>  
> +ENTRY(i386_ret_from_resume)
> +	CFI_STARTPROC
> +	pushl %eax
> +	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
> +	call schedule_tail
> +	GET_THREAD_INFO(%ebp)
> +	popl %eax
> +	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -4
> +	movl (%esp), %eax
> +	testl %eax, %eax
> +	jz    1f
> +	pushl %esp
> +	call  *%eax
> +	addl  $4, %esp
> +1:
> +	addl  $256, %esp
> +	jmp   ret_from_fork_tail
> +	CFI_ENDPROC
> +END(i386_ret_from_resume)

Could you explain why you need to do this  

	call  *%eax

is it related to the freezer code ? 

C.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17 23:11 [PATCH 0/10] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart (v2) Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11 ` [PATCH 01/10] Introduce trivial sys_checkpoint and sys_restore system calls Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11   ` [PATCH 02/10] Make checkpoint/restart functionality modular Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11     ` [PATCH 03/10] Introduce context structure needed during checkpointing/restart Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11       ` [PATCH 04/10] Introduce container dump function Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11         ` [PATCH 05/10] Introduce function to dump process Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11           ` [PATCH 06/10] Introduce functions to dump mm Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11             ` [PATCH 07/10] Introduce function for restarting a container Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11               ` [PATCH 08/10] Introduce functions to restart a process Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11                 ` [PATCH 09/10] Introduce functions to restore mm Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-17 23:11                   ` [PATCH 10/10] Add support for multiple processes Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-27 15:58                     ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-30  4:55                       ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20  9:23                 ` Cedric Le Goater [this message]
2008-10-22  8:49                   ` [Devel] Re: [PATCH 08/10] Introduce functions to restart a process Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-22  9:25                     ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-22 10:06                       ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-22 10:44                         ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-22 12:44                           ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-22 10:12                       ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-22 10:46                         ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-23  8:53                           ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-22 15:25                         ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-23  9:00                           ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-23 13:57                             ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-24  3:57                               ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-25 21:10                                 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-29 14:52                                   ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-30 15:59                                     ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-22 12:47                     ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-23  9:54                       ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-23 13:49                         ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-24  4:04                           ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 13:25                 ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-23 10:56                   ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 12:25             ` [PATCH 06/10] Introduce functions to dump mm Louis Rilling
2008-10-22  8:58               ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 17:21             ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-23  8:43               ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-23 13:51                 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-24  4:07                   ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 11:02           ` [PATCH 05/10] Introduce function to dump process Louis Rilling
2008-10-24  4:15             ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 17:48           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-24  4:40             ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 17:02       ` [PATCH 03/10] Introduce context structure needed during checkpointing/restart Dave Hansen
2008-10-29 15:30         ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 16:51     ` [PATCH 02/10] Make checkpoint/restart functionality modular Dave Hansen
2008-10-20 16:59     ` Serge E. Hallyn

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