In general, interrupt do not care about the PC unless they are returning back
On Aug 2, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:46:31AM +0000, Piyus Kedia wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We are working on developing a dynamic binary translator for the kernel.
>> Towards this, we wanted to confirm if the interrupted PC value pushed on
>> stack by an interrupt/exception is used by the interrupt/exception handlers?
>
> You are assuming some special architecture here, aren't you?
>
> This is all very much machine dependend, and can not be answered for NetBSD
> in general, please give a bit more details. It might be better to ask
> on arch specific mailing lists, if you only care about a certain arch.
to usermode and an "ast" has been requested. This will causes all the registers
to be saved and a context switch to happen. The clock handler cares about the
PC to do profiling.
The code checking for interrupting a RAS handler in cpu_switchto will modify
the PC back to the start of the RAS if the PC was in the middle of a RAS.
For copying faults, NetBSD uses pcb_onfault whose implementation varies by
architecture but involves saving the PC (and maybe other registers) and
using the onfault information to return/react to fault by restoring the
registers saved but this is only applicable to kernel PC addresses.