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Re: asmlinkage

> You are probably confusing the user-space and the kernel-space side of
> the thing. On the user-side, the wrapper takes arguments from the stack
> and loads them to the registers. And calls the trap. Now the kernel
> parts comes to play. It does some setup and calls the sys_* function.
> But the arguments are still in registers. So the asmlinkage tells the
> compiler, that the function will have the args in registers and not on
> the stack, as would be expected for C function.

Isnt it the other way around .... when the sys_* function is called .. the 
arguments are on the stack .... the syscall handler saves the register 
arguments (SAVE_ALL) and then invokes the actual syscall .... asmlinkage 
means that the arguments are on the stack and not in registers .... plz 
correct me if i am wrong.

Bijoy.


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