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+/*
+ * safe-syscall.inc.S : host-specific assembly fragment
+ * to handle signals occurring at the same time as system calls.
+ * This is intended to be included by linux-user/safe-syscall.S
+ *
+ * Written by Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+ .global safe_syscall_base
+ .global safe_syscall_start
+ .global safe_syscall_end
+ .type safe_syscall_base, #function
+ .type safe_syscall_start, #function
+ .type safe_syscall_end, #function
+
+ /* This is the entry point for making a system call. The calling
+ * convention here is that of a C varargs function with the
+ * first argument an 'int *' to the signal_pending flag, the
+ * second one the system call number (as a 'long'), and all further
+ * arguments being syscall arguments (also 'long').
+ * We return a long which is the syscall's return value, which
+ * may be negative-errno on failure. Conversion to the
+ * -1-and-errno-set convention is done by the calling wrapper.
+ */
+safe_syscall_base:
+ .cfi_startproc
+ /* The syscall calling convention isn't the same as the
+ * C one:
+ * we enter with x0 == *signal_pending
+ * x1 == syscall number
+ * x2 ... x7, (stack) == syscall arguments
+ * and return the result in x0
+ * and the syscall instruction needs
+ * x8 == syscall number
+ * x0 ... x7 == syscall arguments
+ * and returns the result in x0
+ * Shuffle everything around appropriately.
+ */
+ mov x9, x0 /* signal_pending pointer */
+ mov x8, x1 /* syscall number */
+ mov x0, x2 /* syscall arguments */
+ mov x1, x3
+ mov x2, x4
+ mov x3, x5
+ mov x4, x6
+ mov x6, x7
+ ldr x7, [sp]
+
+ /* This next sequence of code works in conjunction with the
+ * rewind_if_safe_syscall_function(). If a signal is taken
+ * and the interrupted PC is anywhere between 'safe_syscall_start'
+ * and 'safe_syscall_end' then we rewind it to 'safe_syscall_start'.
+ * The code sequence must therefore be able to cope with this, and
+ * the syscall instruction must be the final one in the sequence.
+ */
+safe_syscall_start:
+ /* if signal_pending is non-zero, don't do the call */
+ ldr w10, [x9]
+ cbnz w10, 0f
+ svc 0x0
+safe_syscall_end:
+ /* code path for having successfully executed the syscall */
+ ret
+
+0:
+ /* code path when we didn't execute the syscall */
+ mov x0, #-TARGET_ERESTARTSYS
+ ret
+ .cfi_endproc
+
+ .size safe_syscall_base, .-safe_syscall_base