From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v5 1/7] x86: instruction decorder API
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:36:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0837FC.9080006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511092731.GA23875@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:48:42PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Add x86 instruction decoder to arch-specific libraries. This decoder
>> can decode x86 instructions used in kernel into prefix, opcode, modrm,
>> sib, displacement and immediates. This can also show the length of
>> instructions.
>
> Could also be used to implement a simple disasembler for OOPS output ala
> arch/s390/kernel/dis.c?
Yes, but as you may know, it's not so "simple"...especially show it as
"gas-like(a.k.a. at&t)" expression :-)
Thank you,
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-09 0:48 [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-09 0:48 ` [PATCH -tip v5 1/7] x86: instruction decorder API Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 9:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-11 14:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2009-05-13 8:23 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-13 9:35 ` Przemysław Pawełczyk
2009-05-13 9:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-13 14:35 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-13 15:20 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-09 0:48 ` [PATCH -tip v5 2/7] kprobes: checks probe address is instruction boudary on x86 Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 14:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-11 15:01 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 15:14 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 15:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-11 18:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-09 0:48 ` [PATCH -tip v5 3/7] kprobes: cleanup fix_riprel() using insn decoder " Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-09 0:48 ` [PATCH -tip v5 4/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-09 16:36 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-05-09 17:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 21:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-11 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-11 10:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-11 15:28 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-05-09 0:49 ` [PATCH -tip v5 5/7] x86: fix kernel_trap_sp() Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 9:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-11 13:48 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-09 0:49 ` [PATCH -tip v5 6/7] x86: add pt_regs register and stack access APIs Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-09 0:49 ` [PATCH -tip v5 7/7] tracing: add arguments support on kprobe-based event tracer Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 14:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-09 4:43 ` [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder Ingo Molnar
2009-05-11 14:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 14:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-11 20:05 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11 21:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 22:03 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-13 13:21 ` Ingo Molnar
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