[PATCH] score/i386: Add context switch restore external symbol as a marker.

[Sebastian Huber]

On 22/07/16 08:52, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 22/07/2016 16:44, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The stack pointer is part of the context. If you retrieve the PC from
>>>>> here it should work for all threads.
>>>>
>>>> All threads on the i386 arch or all threads on all archs?
>>>>
>>>> I would like to make this simpler for all archs. I do not mind if we
>>>> require something being added to each arch to do this but I would
>>>> like an interface somewhere and somehow.
>>>
>>> I don't think that the thread context reconstruction can be done in an
>>> architecture independent way. You have different register sets and
>>> different ways to store the PC. For example on x86 the PC is on the
>>> stack, on ARM you have Context_Control::register_lr, on PowerPC
>>> ppc_context::lr which is embedded in Context_Control due to cache line
>>> alignment, on SPARC you have Context_Control::o7, and so on.
>
> Sorry, I was meaning just a way to get the PC.
>
>>> I would rather provide a global function that provides the data for
>>> your consumer (libunwind?) with a common interface for all
>>> architectures and an architecture dependent implementation. The
>>> debugger could call this function.
>
> The consumer is a thread aware TCP gdb server running in RTEMS.
>
>>
>> For the stack checker extension we have for example 
>> _CPU_Context_Get_SP().
>>
>
> _CPU_Context_Get_PC() ?
>
> I would like this to be localised to the CPU implementation and 
> something that is figured out when a new port is done. 

Yes, I think a _CPU_Context_Get_PC() would be the right way to do this.

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