asmlinkage的作用

相信大家在看linux的source code的时候,都会注意到asmlinkage这个宏,它是用来做什么的呢?

The asmlinkage tag is one other thing that we should observe about this simple function. This is a #define for some gcc magic that tells the compiler that the function should not expect to find any of its arguments in registers (a common optimization), but only on the CPU's stack. Recall our earlier assertion that system_call consumes its first argument, the system call number, and allows up to four more arguments that are passed along to the real system call. system_call achieves this feat simply by leaving its other arguments (which were passed to it in registers) on the stack. All system calls are marked with the asmlinkage tag, so they all look to the stack for arguments. Of course, in sys_ni_syscall's case, this doesn't make any difference, because sys_ni_syscall doesn't take any arguments, but it's an issue for most other system calls.

看一下/usr/include/asm/linkage.h里面的定义：
#define asmlinkage CPP_ASMLINKAGE __attribute__((regparm(0)))
__attribute__是关键字，是gcc的C语言扩展，regparm(0)表示不从寄存器传递参数

如果是__attribute__((regparm(3)))，那么调用函数的时候参数不是通过栈传递，而是直接放到寄存器里，被调用函数直接从寄存器取参数。