[RFC PATCH v1 3/6] tools/nolibc: i386: Implement syscall with 6 arguments

[Ammar Faizi]

In i386, the 6th argument of syscall goes in %ebp. However, both Clang
and GCC cannot use %ebp in the clobber list and in the "r" constraint
without using -fomit-frame-pointer. To make it always available for any
kind of compilation, the below workaround is implemented.

For clang (the Assembly statement can't clobber %ebp):
  1) Save the %ebp value to the redzone area -4(%esp).
  2) Load the 6-th argument from memory to %ebp.
  3) Subtract the %esp by 4.
  4) Do the syscall (int $0x80).
  5) Pop %ebp.

For GCC, fortunately it has a #pragma that can force a specific function
to be compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer, so it can always use "r"(var)
where `var` is a variable bound to %ebp.

Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h
index 82bf797849ae..10de54d4b4d6 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-i386.h
@@ -167,6 +167,70 @@ struct sys_stat_struct {
 	_ret;                                                                 \
 })
 
+
+/*
+ * Both Clang and GCC cannot use %ebp in the clobber list and in the "r"
+ * constraint without using -fomit-frame-pointer. To make it always
+ * available for any kind of compilation, the below workaround is
+ * implemented.
+ *
+ * For clang (the Assembly statement can't clobber %ebp):
+ *   1) Save the %ebp value to the redzone area -4(%esp).
+ *   2) Load the 6-th argument from memory to %ebp.
+ *   3) Subtract the %esp by 4.
+ *   4) Do the syscall (int $0x80).
+ *   5) Pop %ebp.
+ *
+ * For GCC, fortunately it has a #pragma that can force a specific function
+ * to be compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer, so it can use "r"(var) where
+ * var is a variable bound to %ebp.
+ *
+ */
+#if defined(__clang__)
+static inline long ____do_syscall6(long eax, long ebx, long ecx, long edx,
+				   long esi, long edi, long ebp)
+{
+	__asm__ volatile (
+		"movl	%%ebp, -4(%%esp)\n\t"
+		"movl	%[arg6], %%ebp\n\t"
+		"subl	$4, %%esp\n\t"
+		"int	$0x80\n\t"
+		"popl	%%ebp\n\t"
+		: "=a"(eax)
+		: "a"(eax), "b"(ebx), "c"(ecx), "d"(edx), "S"(esi), "D"(edi),
+		  [arg6]"m"(ebp)
+		: "memory", "cc"
+	);
+	return eax;
+}
+
+#else /* #if defined(__clang__) */
+#pragma GCC push_options
+#pragma GCC optimize "-fomit-frame-pointer"
+static inline long ____do_syscall6(long eax, long ebx, long ecx, long edx,
+				   long esi, long edi, long ebp)
+{
+	register long __ebp __asm__("ebp") = ebp;
+	__asm__ volatile (
+		"int	$0x80"
+		: "=a"(eax)
+		: "a"(eax), "b"(ebx), "c"(ecx), "d"(edx), "S"(esi), "D"(edi),
+		  "r"(__ebp)
+		: "memory", "cc"
+	);
+	return eax;
+}
+#pragma GCC pop_options
+#endif /* #if defined(__clang__) */
+
+#define my_syscall6(num, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6) (   \
+	____do_syscall6((long)(num), (long)(arg1),               \
+			(long)(arg2), (long)(arg3),              \
+			(long)(arg4), (long)(arg5),              \
+			(long)(arg6))                            \
+)
+
+
 /* startup code */
 /*
  * i386 System V ABI mandates:
-- 
Ammar Faizi