From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753023AbXCRIIp (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:08:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753141AbXCRIIp (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:08:45 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:3925 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753023AbXCRIIo (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:08:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=tqgGTv9rurJvVIbK+hYiogu5ckh8vrO/H019v8/wPxWfdK8lqbj81o+vNVo9DcrS7RwYwDXy4sOl0zomqwvUSJ7EwRor4rcDcg+U8TCmOtQ16pJEfYFLPgbhL6PEePZKlQiUnKPZm2XLC4iOUwWy1F56XB8x3QBOAn38U5N4kbQ= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:08:43 +0800 From: "Ying Chu" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sysenter cause a segmentation fault. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: f602dd49422e4115 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A simple code running on PIII 800,kernel 2.6.20 with SEP enabled causes a segmentation fault. The slice is as following. #include #include int main() { unsigned long ret=0; __asm__ __volatile__ ("movl %1,%%eax\n\tpushl %%ecx\n\t" "pushl %%edx\n\tpush %%ebp\n\t" "movl %%esp,%%ebp\n\t" "sysenter\n\t" "movl %%eax,%0" :"=m"(ret) :"b"(SYS_getuid)); printf("%d\n",ret); return 0; } More, when i enabled Kdb and set "bp sysenter_entry",it went with a catastrophic error errupted.