copy_regset_to_user(9)

💖 copy_regset_to_user(9) 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie! This is the page for copy_regset_to_user — the little function that will fetch a thread's user_regset data into user memory. Periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

copy_regset_to_user — fetch a thread's user_regset data into user memory.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int copy_regset_to_user (struct task_struct *target , const struct
       user_regset_view *view , unsigned int setno , unsigned int offset ,
       unsigned int size , void __user *data );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• target — thread to be examined. like, the thread in question, bestie 🔍
• view — struct user_regset_view describing user thread machine state.
• setno — index in view->regsets.
• offset — offset into the regset data, in bytes.
• size — amount of data to copy, in bytes.
• data — user-mode pointer to copy into.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./kernel/regset.c

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