Re: restoring of pt_regs regs in context switch

["pl ice" <telent997@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also have a questions about struct pt_regs, how to get pt_regs in my module,Does kernel provide a API to get that?

2008/12/8 Stephane Lambert <stephane.lambert@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello all
I have a question concerning context switch :
When and how does the content of 'regs' (struct pt_regs)  is restored during context switch?
(especially fn, arg, and kernel_thread_helper() address, set in kernel_thread() in order to call fn(arg)).

Thanks in advance for your responses.

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