Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:29:58 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Why set ORIG_EAX(%esp) to -1 in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S:error_code? |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > No. It's important that ORIG_EAX be set to some value that is _not_ a > valid system call number, so that the system call restart logic (see the > signal handling code) doesn't trigger. >
Ah, yes, I see. I'll add a comment in my i386-pda patch to entry.S.
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