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+/*
+ * safe-syscall.inc.S : host-specific assembly fragment
+ * to handle signals occurring at the same time as system calls.
+ * This is intended to be included by common-user/safe-syscall.S
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Timothy Edward Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+ .global safe_syscall_base
+ .global safe_syscall_start
+ .global safe_syscall_end
+ .type safe_syscall_base, @function
+
+ /* This is the entry point for making a system call. The calling
+ * convention here is that of a C varargs function with the
+ * first argument an 'int *' to the signal_pending flag, the
+ * second one the system call number (as a 'long'), and all further
+ * arguments being syscall arguments (also 'long').
+ */
+safe_syscall_base:
+ .cfi_startproc
+ /* This saves a frame pointer and aligns the stack for the syscall.
+ * (It's unclear if the syscall ABI has the same stack alignment
+ * requirements as the userspace function call ABI, but better safe than
+ * sorry. Appendix A2 of http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf
+ * does not list any ABI differences regarding stack alignment.)
+ */
+ push %rbp
+ .cfi_adjust_cfa_offset 8
+ .cfi_rel_offset rbp, 0
+
+ /*
+ * The syscall calling convention isn't the same as the C one:
+ * we enter with rdi == &signal_pending
+ * rsi == syscall number
+ * rdx, rcx, r8, r9, (stack), (stack) == syscall arguments
+ * and return the result in rax
+ * and the syscall instruction needs
+ * rax == syscall number
+ * rdi, rsi, rdx, r10, r8, r9 == syscall arguments
+ * and returns the result in rax
+ * Shuffle everything around appropriately.
+ * Note that syscall will trash rcx and r11.
+ */
+ mov %rsi, %rax /* syscall number */
+ mov %rdi, %rbp /* signal_pending pointer */
+ /* and the syscall arguments */
+ mov %rdx, %rdi
+ mov %rcx, %rsi
+ mov %r8, %rdx
+ mov %r9, %r10
+ mov 16(%rsp), %r8
+ mov 24(%rsp), %r9
+
+ /* This next sequence of code works in conjunction with the
+ * rewind_if_safe_syscall_function(). If a signal is taken
+ * and the interrupted PC is anywhere between 'safe_syscall_start'
+ * and 'safe_syscall_end' then we rewind it to 'safe_syscall_start'.
+ * The code sequence must therefore be able to cope with this, and
+ * the syscall instruction must be the final one in the sequence.
+ */
+safe_syscall_start:
+ /* if signal_pending is non-zero, don't do the call */
+ cmpl $0, (%rbp)
+ jnz 2f
+ syscall
+safe_syscall_end:
+ /* code path for having successfully executed the syscall */
+ cmp $-4095, %rax
+ jae 0f
+ pop %rbp
+ .cfi_remember_state
+ .cfi_def_cfa_offset 8
+ .cfi_restore rbp
+ ret
+ .cfi_restore_state
+
+0: neg %eax
+ jmp 1f
+
+ /* code path when we didn't execute the syscall */
+2: mov $QEMU_ERESTARTSYS, %eax
+
+ /* code path setting errno */
+1: pop %rbp
+ .cfi_def_cfa_offset 8
+ .cfi_restore rbp
+ jmp safe_syscall_set_errno_tail
+ .cfi_endproc
+
+ .size safe_syscall_base, .-safe_syscall_base