From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751717AbWI1HRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:17:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751720AbWI1HRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:17:33 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:10767 "EHLO mail.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751717AbWI1HRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:17:32 -0400 Date: 28 Sep 2006 09:17:31 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:17:31 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line Message-ID: <20060928071731.GB84041@muc.de> References: <451B64E3.9020900@goop.org> <20060927233509.f675c02d.akpm@osdl.org> <451B708D.20505@goop.org> <20060928000019.3fb4b317.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060928000019.3fb4b317.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Plan #17 is to just put the BUG inline and then put the EIP+file*+line into > a separate section, then search that section at BUG time to find the record > whose EIP points back at this ud2a. > > It's a bit messy for modules, but it minimises the .text impact and keeps > disassembly happy, no? > > And if done right it can probably be used by other architectures. The way x86-64 solved it was to turn the inline code into valid instructions. This can be done with two additional bytes. IMHO that's the right solution for the problem on i386 too -Andi