4 Dec
2015
4 Dec
'15
6:52 a.m.
On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 10:42:00 -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
E.g. switching processes probably requires a fair
amount, since one
needs to know about internal CPU registers, etc;
And there you missed your cue :-) From swtch() in sys/ken/slp.c:
/*
* If the new process paused because it was
* swapped out, set the stack level to the last call
* to savu(u_ssav). This means that the return
* which is executed immediately after the call to aretu
* actually returns from the last routine which did
* the savu.
*
* You are not expected to understand this.
*/
Greg
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