Re: [Xen-devel] The entry of Xen's exception handler

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/10/2012 21:51, "Xinxin Jin" <xinxinjin89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to understand the exception handler of Xen. In
> xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S, the entry of the page fault handler is :
> 
> ENTRY(page_fault)
>         movl  $TRAP_page_fault,4(%rsp)
>         jmp   handle_exception
> 
> Here I did not get why to put the exception vector ($TRAP_page_fault) to stack
> before calling handle_exception?

Otherwise handle_exception would not know which type of exception it was
handling, would it.

 -- Keir

> Thanks,



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