# Some OS-specific preliminaries for Linux. # Memory layout # # 0 - 0x08047ffff - reserved for the kernel # 0x08048000 - 0xbffffffff - available for user programs # 0xc0000000 - 0xfffffffff - reserved for the kernel == code 0x09000000 == data 0x0a000000 # Syscalls # # We don't have libc, so we need to know Linux's precise syscall layout. == code # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/exit.2.html syscall_exit: # status/ebx : int b8/copy-to-eax 1/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/read.2.html syscall_read: # fd/ebx : int, buf/ecx : address, size/edx : int -> nbytes-or-error/eax : int b8/copy-to-eax 3/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/write.2.html syscall_write: # fd/ebx : int, buf/ecx : address, size/edx : int -> nbytes-or-error/eax : int b8/copy-to-eax 4/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html syscall_open: # filename/ebx : (address null-terminated-string), flags/ecx : int -> fd-or-error/eax : int b8/copy-to-eax 5/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/close.2.html syscall_close: # fd/ebx : int -> status/eax b8/copy-to-eax 6/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/creat.2.html syscall_creat: # filename/ebx : (address null-terminated-string) -> fd-or-error/eax : int b8/copy-to-eax 8/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unlink.2.html syscall_unlink: # filename/ebx : (address null-terminated-string) -> status/eax : int b8/copy-to-eax 0xa/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/rename.2.html syscall_rename: # source/ebx : (address null-terminated-string), dest/ecx : (address null-terminated-string) -> status/eax : int b8/copy-to-eax 0x26/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return # https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fa121bb3fed6313b1f0af23952301e06cf6d32ed/mm/nommu.c#L1352 syscall_mmap: # arg/ebx : (address mmap_arg_struct) -> status/eax : int # the important thing: ebx+4 contains the 32-bit size to be allocated b8/copy-to-eax 0x5a/imm32 cd/syscall 0x80/imm8 c3/return