System call support in process record and replay

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Mon Jun 1 07:14:00 GMT 2009


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I have a question about general design of the system call support for
> the record/replay target, for systems whose system calls are entered
> through software interrupts.
>
> The following excerpt from i386-tdep.c shows the currently-only
> implementation, for Linux system calls entered via INT 80h:

Note on modern x86 systems Linux doesn't even use INT 80h anymore for
syscalls, but typically SYSENTER (or sometimes SYSCALL)

-Andi

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