glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/clone.S

/* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
   Contributed by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>, 1996.

   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
   License, or (at your option) any later version.

   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Library General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
   License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
   write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */

/* clone() is even more special than fork() as it mucks with stacks
   and invokes a function in the right context after its all over.  */

#include <sysdep.h>
#define _ERRNO_H	1
#include <errnos.h>

/* int clone(int (*fn)(void *arg), void *child_stack, int flags, void *arg) */

        .text
ENTRY(__clone)
	.frame	sp,0,ra,0
#ifdef PROF
	.set noat
	lda	AT, _mcount
	jsr	AT, (AT), _mcount
	.set at
#endif
	.prologue 1

	/* Sanity check arguments.  */
	ldiq	v0,EINVAL
	beq	a0,$error		/* no NULL function pointers */
	beq	a1,$error		/* no NULL stack pointers */

	/* Do the system call */
	mov	a0,pv			/* get fn ptr out of the way */
	mov	a3,a4			/* get fn arg out of the way */
	mov	a2,a0
	ldiq	v0,__NR_clone
	call_pal PAL_callsys

	bne	a3,$error
	beq	v0,thread_start

	/* Successful return from the parent */
	ret

	/* Something bad happened -- no child created */
$error:
	br	gp,1f
1:	ldgp	gp,0(gp)
	jmp	zero,__syscall_error

	END(__clone)

/* Load up the arguments to the function.  Put this block of code in
   its own function so that we can terminate the stack trace with our
   debug info.  */

	.ent thread_start
thread_start:
	.frame fp,0,zero,0
	mov	zero,fp
	.prologue 0

	/* Call the user's function */
	mov	a4,a0
	jsr	ra,(pv)
	ldgp	gp,0(ra)

	/* Call _exit rather than doing it inline for breakpoint purposes */
	mov	v0,a0
	jsr	ra,_exit

	/* Die horribly.  */
	halt

	.end thread_start

weak_alias(__clone, clone)