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

[Andreas Platschek]

> 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
>
Not sure if this is of any help, but the kernel build system (no idea 
how to do this for user space programs) offers to generate a listing 
that interleaves the c code into assembly making it better readable. So 
if your function is e.g. in kernel/rtmutex.c you could do the following:

andi at PC63:~/working_git/linux-next$ make kernel/rtmutex.lst
   SYSHDR arch/x86/syscalls/../include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h
   SYSHDR arch/x86/syscalls/../include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h
<SNIP>
   HOSTCC  scripts/asn1_compiler
   MKLST   kernel/rtmutex.lst
No System.map
andi at PC63:~/working_git/linux-next$

here is one function from the resulting rtmutex.lst file:

static void fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex *lock)
{
   70:    e8 00 00 00 00           callq  75 <fixup_rt_mutex_waiters+0x5>
                                      71: R_X86_64_PC32 
__fentry__+0xfffffffffffffffc
   75:    55                       push   %rbp
   76:    48 ff 05 00 00 00 00     incq   0x0(%rip)        # 7d 
<fixup_rt_mutex_waiters+0xd>
                                       79: R_X86_64_PC32 .bss+0x6fc
   7d:    48 89 e5                 mov    %rsp,%rbp
   80:    53                       push   %rbx
   81:    48 89 fb                 mov    %rdi,%rbx
                                            if (!rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock))
   84:    e8 8e ff ff ff           callq  17 <rt_mutex_has_waiters>
   89:    48 ff 05 00 00 00 00     incq   0x0(%rip)        # 90 
<fixup_rt_mutex_waiters+0x20>
             8c: R_X86_64_PC32    .bss+0x704
   90:    85 c0                    test   %eax,%eax
   92:    75 0c                    jne    a0 <fixup_rt_mutex_waiters+0x30>
}

btw. you can for example generate the pre-processed code in the same way:

andi at PC63:~/working_git/linux-next$ make kernel/rtmutex.i

or the assembly code:

andi at PC63:~/working_git/linux-next$ make kernel/rtmutex.s

this is especially helpful, as it also contains a list of all the flags 
used for compiling.

regards,
andi


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