/* kernel_thread.S: kernel thread creation * * Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. */ #include <linux/linkage.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> #define CLONE_VM 0x00000100 /* set if VM shared between processes */ #define KERN_ERR "<3>" .section .rodata kernel_thread_emsg: .asciz KERN_ERR "failed to create kernel thread: error=%d\n" .text .balign 4 ############################################################################### # # Create a kernel thread # # int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void * arg, unsigned long flags) # ############################################################################### .globl kernel_thread .type kernel_thread,@function kernel_thread: or.p gr8,gr0,gr4 or gr9,gr0,gr5 # start by forking the current process, but with shared VM setlos.p #__NR_clone,gr7 ; syscall number ori gr10,#CLONE_VM,gr8 ; first syscall arg [clone_flags] sethi.p #0xe4e4,gr9 ; second syscall arg [newsp] setlo #0xe4e4,gr9 setlos.p #0,gr10 ; third syscall arg [parent_tidptr] setlos #0,gr11 ; fourth syscall arg [child_tidptr] tira gr0,#0 setlos.p #4095,gr7 andcc gr8,gr8,gr0,icc0 addcc.p gr8,gr7,gr0,icc1 bnelr icc0,#2 bc icc1,#0,kernel_thread_error # now invoke the work function or gr5,gr0,gr8 calll @(gr4,gr0) # and finally exit the thread setlos #__NR_exit,gr7 ; syscall number tira gr0,#0 kernel_thread_error: subi sp,#8,sp movsg lr,gr4 sti gr8,@(sp,#0) sti.p gr4,@(sp,#4) or gr8,gr0,gr9 sethi.p %hi(kernel_thread_emsg),gr8 setlo %lo(kernel_thread_emsg),gr8 call printk ldi @(sp,#4),gr4 ldi @(sp,#0),gr8 subi sp,#8,sp jmpl @(gr4,gr0) .size kernel_thread,.-kernel_thread