OK so I have to ask.. S/390 as in IBM Mainframem S/390?


On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Serguei Tzukanov wrote:

> 
> > td_retval[0] is the low word, and td_retval[1] is the high word, you
> > just need to make sure the values from those two words get returned
> > properly to userland.
> 
> 1) syscall returns 32-bit value:
>       r2 = rv[0];
>       r3 = rv[1];
>       r3 is irrelevant here (ABI: "32-bit values returned in r2")
> 
> 2) syscall returns 64-bit value:
>       MI code uses something like
>       *(int64_t *)rv = xxx, so I have to do
>       r2 = rv[0];
>       r3 = rv[1];
>       ABI says "long long shall be returned with the lower
>       addressed half in r2 and the higher in r3"
> 
> 3) syscall folded into __syscall returns 32-bit value (e.g. mmap):
>       MI code does usual
>       r[0] = xxx;
>       svc (syscall) handler does
>       r2 = rv[0];
>       r3 = rv[1]; /* zeroed before */
>       then mmap wrapper in userspace casts this 64-bit to 32-bit
>       (loads r2 with r3 really) and always gets 0.
> 
> So to make it consistent I have to know size of returned value for every 
> syscall and for case 3 do {r3 = rv[0]; r2 = rv[1]}.
> 
> 
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