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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2012 16:36:33 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org>, rwatson@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, jonathan@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r236026 - in head/sys: amd64/linux32 compat/freebsd32 kern
Message-ID:  <20120528133633.GB2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20120527043827.W3357@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201205252150.q4PLomFk035064@svn.freebsd.org> <20120526173233.A885@besplex.bde.org> <20120526164927.GU2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120527043827.W3357@besplex.bde.org>

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On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 07:49:36AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2012, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>=20
> >On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:21:25PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >The 'low level' AKA magic happens in several *_fetch_syscall_args()
> >functions. For both linux32 and freebsd32, the magic code automatically
> >zero-extends the arguments into 64bit entities. Linux passes args in
> >registers, while FreeBSD uses words on stack.
>=20
> Actually, the amd64 linux_fetch32_fetch_syscall_args() just copies from
> 64-bit registers frame->tf_r* to 64-bit sa->args[*].  I can't see how
> this gives anything except garbage in the top bits.  Is there magic in
> the switch to 64-bit mode that sets the top bits?  Anyway, sign extension
> would give garbage for unsigned args, and zero-extension would give
> garbage for negative signed args.
Hardware zero-extends any register touched in the 32bit mode.

In fact, please see r217991 for related bug.

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