On 11/5/24 13:37, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
What is the point of writing this code in assembly in the first place? A much more logical thing to do is to just push the registers you haven't pushed already onto the stack and call a C function to do the actual dumping? It isn't like it is in any shape, way or form performance critical.

arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c has some code that you can crib, both for writing to a text screen (not that useful anymore with EFI framebuffers) and serial port. If you factor it a little bit then you can probably even share the code directly.

(__putstr perhaps should have a __putchar() factored out of it?)

Then you can just do the obvious (have your assembly stub point %rdi to the base of the register dump; set the frame order to whatever you'd like, except rip/err/exc, or reverse the order if you prefer by changing the loop):

static inline __noreturn void die(void)
{
        while (1)
                asm volatile("hlt");
}

void dump_register_frame(const unsigned long frame[])
{
        static const char regnames[][5] = {
                "rax:", "rcx:", "rdx:", "rbx:",
                "rsp:", "rbp:", "rsi:", "rdi:",
                "r8: ", "r9: ", "r10:", "r11:",
                "r12:", "r13:", "r14:", "r15:",
                "cr2:", "Exc:", "Err:", "rip:"
        };

        for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(regnames); i++) {
                __putstr(regnames[i]);
                __puthex(frame[i]);
                __putstr("\n");
        }

        /* Only return from int3 */
        if (frame[17] != 3)
                die();
}


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