rust-osdev / rust-osdev/x86_64
Add wrapper mechanism around syscall / sysret
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Description
Hi!
How i can easily access the pushed registers from an InterruptStackFrame instance?
I need this to read/write the saved values, for example, for system calls arguments
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Research direction
Start by locating the InterruptStackFrame implementation and the syscall/sysret handling named in the issue. Determine how a wrapper could expose the pushed registers for reading and writing as system-call arguments, then define and validate the mechanism against the project's existing interrupt interfaces.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100