Add a comment to explain the fork return values on sparc64

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Koakuma
2020-11-28 13:24:24 +07:00
parent 41c40f4bbe
commit f10bff9ffb

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@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ pub fn syscall_pipe(fd: *[2]i32) usize {
}
pub fn syscall_fork() usize {
// Linux/sparc64 fork() returns two values in %o0 and %o1:
// - On the parent's side, %o0 is the child's PID and %o1 is 0.
// - On the child's side, %o0 is the parent's PID and %o1 is 1.
// We need to clear the child's %o0 so that the return values
// conform to the libc convention.
return asm volatile (
\\ t 0x6d
\\ bcc,pt %%xcc, 1f
@@ -29,6 +34,7 @@ pub fn syscall_fork() usize {
\\ ba 2f
\\ neg %%o0
\\ 1:
\\ # Clear the child's %%o0
\\ dec %%o1
\\ and %%o1, %%o0, %%o0
\\ 2: