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Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 6367a2352e Added sforkr(2) that controls the child registers as well.
sfork(2) now calls sforkr(2) with the current registers.

This will prove useful in creating threads, where user-space now can fully
control what state the child will start in. This is unlike the Linux clone
system call that accepts a pointer to the child stack; this is more powerful
and somehow simpler. Note that this will create a rather raw thread; no
thread initization has been done by the standard thread API (when it is
implemented), so this feature shouldn't be used by programmers unless they
know what they are doing.

fork(2) now calls sfork(2) directly. Also removed fork(2) and sfork(2) from
the kernel as they are done using sforkr(2) now. So technically they aren't
system calls right now, but that could always change.
2012-04-05 23:00:47 +02:00

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/*******************************************************************************
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x86/fork.s
Assembly functions related to forking x86 processes.
*******************************************************************************/
.section .text
.globl __call_sforkr_with_regs
.type __call_sforkr_with_regs, @function
__call_sforkr_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 sforkregs_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 sforkr with a nice pointer to our structure. Note that %edi contains
# the flag parameter that this function accepted.
pushl %esp
pushl %edx
call sforkr
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