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[PATCH] i386: more vsyscall documentation
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Document a limitation of vsyscall-sysenter, since patches to fix it have
been rejected.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Chuck Ebbert authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 23, 2006
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* instruction clobbers %esp, the user's %esp won't even survive entry
* into the kernel. We store %esp in %ebp. Code in entry.S must fetch
* arg6 from the stack.
*
* You can not use this vsyscall for the clone() syscall because the
* three dwords on the parent stack do not get copied to the child.
*/
.text
.globl __kernel_vsyscall
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