From: Jan Beulich Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:01:58 +0000 (+0100) Subject: i386: Make kernel_execve() suitable for stack unwinding X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fe977dab356fbd7e86aa10bf83891761107c57c;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git i386: Make kernel_execve() suitable for stack unwinding The explicit saving and restoring of %ebx was confusing stack unwind data consumers, and it is plain unnecessary to do this within the asm(), since that was only introduced for PIC user mode consumers of the original _syscall3() macro this was derived from. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Cc: Arnd Bergmann LKML-Reference: <4C7FBC660200007800013F95@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c index d5e06624e34a..0b0cb5fede19 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ int kernel_execve(const char *filename, const char *const envp[]) { long __res; - asm volatile ("push %%ebx ; movl %2,%%ebx ; int $0x80 ; pop %%ebx" + asm volatile ("int $0x80" : "=a" (__res) - : "0" (__NR_execve), "ri" (filename), "c" (argv), "d" (envp) : "memory"); + : "0" (__NR_execve), "b" (filename), "c" (argv), "d" (envp) : "memory"); return __res; }