Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://am.lcs/home/am0/6.828/xv6

shuowpro · Oct 25, 2009 · d6cd7d0 · d6cd7d0
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diff --git a/proc.h b/proc.h
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
 // x86 convention is that the caller has saved them.
 // Contexts are stored at the bottom of the stack they
 // describe; the stack pointer is the address of the context.
-// The layout of the context must match the code in swtch.S.
+// The layout of the context matches the layout of the stack in swtch.S
+// at "Switch stacks" comment. Switch itself doesn't save eip explicitly,
+// but it is on the stack and allocproc() manipulates it.
 struct context {
   uint edi;
   uint esi;