Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

[David Woodhouse]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>  But where do I get the other argument (struct pt_regs *) from? A
> normal Linux syscall does not appear to have access to such a beast...

With difficulty. A normal syscall wouldn't generally go through the lcall7 
handler. Some of the ABI/iBCS code gets access to the struct pt_regs 
though. It's probably not the best way to go, though.

Try something along these lines...

int (*sys_win32_handler)(args...);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_win32_handler);

int sys_win32(args...)
{
        ret = -ENOSYS;

        if (current->personality != PER_WIN32) {
                if (sys_personality(PER_WIN32))
                        return -ENOSYS;
        }
        /* Now the process has the WIN32 personality, so until it
           exits, we know the module cannot be unloaded.
         */

        return (*sys_win32_handler)(args...);
}
        

Code your win32 support module to register the PER_WIN32 personality, and 
set the sys_win32_handler pointer appropriately. Probably not in that order.


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dwmw2


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