cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 exception.S trap.c
src/sys/amd64/include frame.h signal.h ucontext.h
David Xu
davidxu at viatech.com.cn
Tue Oct 14 20:05:55 PDT 2003
Peter Wemm wrote:
>peter 2003/10/14 19:04:52 PDT
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> sys/amd64/amd64 exception.S trap.c
> sys/amd64/include frame.h signal.h ucontext.h
> Log:
> Pull the tier-2 card one last time and break the get/setcontext and
> sigreturn() ABI and the signal context on the stack.
>
> Make the trapframe (and its shadows in the ucontext and sigframe etc)
> 8 bytes larger in order to preserve 16 byte stack alignment for the
> following C code calls. I could have done some padding after the
> trapframe was saved, but some of the C code still expects an argument of
> 'struct trapframe'. Anyway, this gives me a spare field that can be used
> to store things like 'partial trapframe' status or something else in
> the future.
>
> The runtime impact is fairly small, *except* for threaded apps and things
> that decode contexts and the signal stack (eg: cvsup binary). Signal
> delivery isn't too badly affected because the kernel generates the
> sigframe that sigreturn uses after the handler has been called.
>
> The size of mcontext_t and struct sigframe hasn't changed. Only
> the last few fields (sc_eip etc) got moved a little and I eliminated
> a spare field. mc_len/sc_len did change location though so the
> sanity checks there will still trap it.
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.113 +1 -1 src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S
> 1.266 +9 -0 src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
> 1.25 +3 -0 src/sys/amd64/include/frame.h
> 1.24 +2 -2 src/sys/amd64/include/signal.h
> 1.16 +2 -2 src/sys/amd64/include/ucontext.h
>
>
>
The change you made to ucontext.h breaks libkse. :-(
David Xu
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