Re: [PATCH] tools/nolibc: x86: Remove `r8`, `r9` and `r10` from the clobber list

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 04:24:28PM +0000, Michael Matz wrote:
> (...)
> > In short:  Ammars initial claim:
> > 
> > > Linux x86-64 syscall only clobbers rax, rcx and r11 (and "memory").
> > > 
> > >   - rax for the return value.
> > >   - rcx to save the return address.
> > >   - r11 to save the rflags.
> > > 
> > > Other registers are preserved.
> > 
> > is accurate and I will clarify the psABI to make that explicit.
> 
> Many thanks for this very detailed explanation! Ammar, I'll take your
> patch.

Great, why are we dealing with some funky document when the law is in
glibc sources?!

:-)))

Ammar, if you wanna fixup the comment in entry_64.S too - make sure you
explain that glibc expects argument registers to be restored - I'll take
that patch too.

:-)

Thx, that was fun.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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