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* make online help more obviousKartik Agaram2021-04-041-0/+4
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# Some OS-specific preliminaries for Linux.

# Memory layout
#
#          0 - 0x08047ffff - reserved for the kernel
# 0x08048000 - 0xbffffffff - available for user programs
# 0xc0000000 - 0xfffffffff - reserved for the kernel
== code 0x09000000
== data 0x0a000000

# Syscalls
#
# We don't have libc, so we need to know Linux's precise syscall layout.
# These are not real functions. Pass arguments in specific registers.
== code

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/exit.2.html
syscall_exit:  # status/ebx: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 1/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/read.2.html
syscall_read:  # fd/ebx: int, buf/ecx: addr, size/edx: int -> nbytes-or-error/eax: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 3/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/write.2.html
syscall_write:  # fd/ebx: int, buf/ecx: addr, size/edx: int -> nbytes-or-error/eax: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 4/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html
syscall_open:  # filename/ebx: (addr kernel-string), flags/ecx: int, dummy=0x180/edx -> fd-or-error/eax: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 5/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/close.2.html
syscall_close:  # fd/ebx: int -> status/eax
    b8/copy-to-eax 6/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/lseek.2.html
syscall_lseek:  # fd/ebx: int, offset/ecx: int, whence/edx: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 0x13/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/creat.2.html
syscall_creat:  # filename/ebx: (addr kernel-string) -> fd-or-error/eax: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 8/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unlink.2.html
syscall_unlink:  # filename/ebx: (addr kernel-string) -> status/eax: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 0xa/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/rename.2.html
syscall_rename:  # source/ebx: (addr kernel-string), dest/ecx: (addr kernel-string) -> status/eax: int
    b8/copy-to-eax 0x26/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

# https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fa121bb3fed6313b1f0af23952301e06cf6d32ed/mm/nommu.c#L1352
syscall_mmap:  # arg/ebx: (addr mmap_arg_struct) -> status/eax: int
    # the important thing: ebx+4 contains the 32-bit size to be allocated
    b8/copy-to-eax 0x5a/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

syscall_ioctl:  # fd/ebx: int, cmd/ecx: int, arg/edx: (addr _)
    b8/copy-to-eax 0x36/imm32
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

syscall_nanosleep:  # req/ebx: (addr timespec)
    b8/copy-to-eax 0xa2/imm32  # 162
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return

syscall_clock_gettime:  # clock/ebx: int, out/ecx: (addr timespec)
    b8/copy-to-eax 0x109/imm32  # 265
    cd/syscall 0x80/imm8
    c3/return