Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/insn: Extract more information about instructions

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 04/18/2014 08:47 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> There are very specific mnemonics that kmemchecks wants to detect and treat
> as a corner case.
> 
> What you're saying here is that while the instruction decoder already has the
> knowledge of mnemonics, kmemcheck shouldn't use it and instead write it's own
> opcode -> mnemonic parser and use that instead.
> 

I think that involving mnemonics is "bonghits" level of crazy.  It's a
solution in search of the problem, but it is a hack, and a pretty
horrific one.

> 
>> What it sounds like it really wants is a "bitwise" flag on the instruction.
> 
> A flag like that would solve part of the problem (we'd still need to work with
> CMPS and MOVS), and sounds very kmemcheck specific.
> 

Well, guess what, the whole point is to export information to the users
that need it.

	-hpa