This file documents some of the kernel entries in
-arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S. A lot of this explanation is adapted from
+arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S. A lot of this explanation is adapted from
an email from Ingo Molnar:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20110529191055.GC9835%40elte.hu>
The x86 architecture has quite a few different ways to jump into
kernel code. Most of these entry points are registered in
-arch/x86/kernel/traps.c and implemented in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
-for 64-bit, arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S for 32-bit and finally
-arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S which implements the 32-bit compatibility
+arch/x86/kernel/traps.c and implemented in arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+for 64-bit, arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S for 32-bit and finally
+arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S which implements the 32-bit compatibility
syscall entry points and thus provides for 32-bit processes the
ability to execute syscalls when running on 64-bit kernels.
- system_call: syscall instruction from 64-bit code.
- - ia32_syscall: int 0x80 from 32-bit or 64-bit code; compat syscall
+ - entry_INT80_compat: int 0x80 from 32-bit or 64-bit code; compat syscall
either way.
- - ia32_syscall, ia32_sysenter: syscall and sysenter from 32-bit
+ - entry_INT80_compat, ia32_sysenter: syscall and sysenter from 32-bit
code
- interrupt: An array of entries. Every IDT vector that doesn't