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Commit 063f8913 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar
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x86: document 64-bit and 32-bit function call convention ABI



- also clean up the calling.h file a tiny bit

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 0a1e8869
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/*
 * Some macros to handle stack frames in assembly.

 x86 function call convention, 64-bit:
 -------------------------------------
  arguments           |  callee-saved      | extra caller-saved | return
 [callee-clobbered]   |                    | [callee-clobbered] |
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 rdi rsi rdx rcx r8-9 | rbx rbp [*] r12-15 | r10-11             | rax, rdx [**]

 ( rsp is obviously invariant across normal function calls. (gcc can 'merge'
   functions when it sees tail-call optimization possibilities) rflags is
   clobbered. Leftover arguments are passed over the stack frame.)

 [*]  In the frame-pointers case rbp is fixed to the stack frame.

 [**] for struct return values wider than 64 bits the return convention is a
      bit more complex: up to 128 bits width we return small structures
      straight in rax, rdx. For structures larger than that (3 words or
      larger) the caller puts a pointer to an on-stack return struct
      [allocated in the caller's stack frame] into the first argument - i.e.
      into rdi. All other arguments shift up by one in this case.
      Fortunately this case is rare in the kernel.

For 32-bit we have the following conventions - kernel is built with
-mregparm=3 and -freg-struct-return:

 x86 function calling convention, 32-bit:
 ----------------------------------------
  arguments         | callee-saved        | extra caller-saved | return
 [callee-clobbered] |                     | [callee-clobbered] |
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 eax edx ecx        | ebx edi esi ebp [*] | <none>             | eax, edx [**]

 ( here too esp is obviously invariant across normal function calls. eflags
   is clobbered. Leftover arguments are passed over the stack frame. )

 [*]  In the frame-pointers case ebp is fixed to the stack frame.

 [**] We build with -freg-struct-return, which on 32-bit means similar
      semantics as on 64-bit: edx can be used for a second return value
      (i.e. covering integer and structure sizes up to 64 bits) - after that
      it gets more complex and more expensive: 3-word or larger struct returns
      get done in the caller's frame and the pointer to the return struct goes
      into regparm0, i.e. eax - the other arguments shift up and the
      function's register parameters degenerate to regparm=2 in essence.

*/


/*
 * 64-bit system call stack frame layout defines and helpers,
 * for assembly code:
 */

#define R15		  0
@@ -9,7 +59,7 @@
#define RBP		 32
#define RBX		 40

/* arguments: interrupts/non tracing syscalls only save upto here*/
/* arguments: interrupts/non tracing syscalls only save up to here: */
#define R11		 48
#define R10		 56
#define R9		 64
@@ -22,7 +72,7 @@
#define ORIG_RAX	120       /* + error_code */
/* end of arguments */

/* cpu exception frame or undefined in case of fast syscall. */
/* cpu exception frame or undefined in case of fast syscall: */
#define RIP		128
#define CS		136
#define EFLAGS		144