Fwd: Understanding disassembly x86 + understanding function call + parameter pass and stack frame

[nidhi mittal hada]

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From: nidhi mittal hada <nidhimittal19 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Subject: Understanding disassembly x86 + understanding function call +
parameter pass and stack frame
To: Kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies at nl.linux.org>
Cc: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>


Hi All,

I am using crash tool to analyze core dump obtained from red hat linux on
x86_64 platform.

And crash tool gives a stack trace of panic.
But its does not show function parameters which were passed in this stack
trace.

So i have to disassemble and understand the value of parameters passed to
these functions, while it panicked.
Which i am not able to understand much.

I would request help in knowing, how to understand disassembled function
call , on x86_64 arch.

Putting some of the doubts..

a)like which sequence the parameters, return address, etc are pushed on
stack?
b)Which registers are used, if some registers play some spl. role ?
c)lets say for a program a.c i use gcc -S a.c ...do we have some other
command to generate
somewhat more clear assembly code, may be with some comments in english

Any kind of help in understanding this will be appreciated ..

Thanks
Nidhi





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