On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:49:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Artur Skawina wrote: > > > > well, while trying to get it to work i've often wondered what the > > person who came up with the sysenter/sysexit scheme at intel had been > > sniffing... > > I agree. I don't understand why they couldn't just have saved the old > eip/esp in another msr or something.
Isn't it possible to use the lower (shifted) eip bits as the system call
number when the magic page trick is in place? If so, that could explain it.
--
Frank
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