From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs"
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:53:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E8D905.7030809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E8EC9F020000780002B383@mail.emea.novell.com>
On 08/11/2014 07:17 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>> The existing comments explain what every byte means.
>> They are useful if CFI-literate reader wants to check correctness
>> of the encoding of this annotation.
>>
>> There is no overall comment what this CFI annotation
>> *achieves*. In human language, what do we say
>> to DWARF decoder here?
>
> Short answer: DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression.
>
> Longer response: Just like I said before, what you're asking for is
> identical to ask for each other CFI annotation to get a comment
> associated to tell you what it's doing, which I don't think you
> really mean to ask for. (Our main problem here is that we can't
> specify expressions with the .cfi_* gas directives, and hence have
> to resort to .cfi_escape.)
>
No, in *human language*. What does the DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression
actually aim to accomplish? If you don't know the innards of the DWARF
spec, the whole thing might as well be Hungarian.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-11 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-01 14:48 [PATCH 1/5] x86: entry_64.S: delete unused code Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 14:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: open-code register save/restore in trace_hardirqs thunks Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 14:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: entry_64.S: fold SAVE_ARGS_IRQ macro into its sole user Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 18:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-08-01 14:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs" Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 17:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-04 14:28 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-04 14:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-08-04 15:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-08-04 21:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-04 21:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-08-05 10:35 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-05 15:17 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 23:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-07 9:54 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 18:09 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-08-01 18:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-08-01 18:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-01 22:11 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-02 21:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-02 21:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-02 21:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-01 22:52 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-08-01 23:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-08-04 3:03 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-04 7:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-08-11 0:46 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-08-11 8:40 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-11 9:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-11 9:31 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-11 13:26 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-11 14:17 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-11 14:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-08-11 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-11 15:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-12 9:31 ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-12 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-01 14:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86: mass removal of ARGOFFSET Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-01 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: entry_64.S: delete unused code Frederic Weisbecker
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