From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:05:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191007080527.GA2311@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004224540.766dc0fd824bcd5b8baa2f4c@kernel.org>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:45:40PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 13:01:06 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > I'm halfway through a patch introducing:
> > >
> > > union text_poke_insn {
> > > u8 code[POKE_MAX_OPCODE_SUZE];
> > > struct {
> > > u8 opcode;
> > > s32 disp;
> > > } __attribute__((packed));
> > > };
> > >
> > > to text-patching.h to unify all such custom unions we have all over the
> > > place. I'll mob up the above in that.
>
> I think it is good to unify such unions, but I meant above was, it was
> also important to unify the opcode macro. Since poke_int3_handler()
> clasifies the opcode by your *_INSN_OPCODE macro, it is natual to use
> those opcode for text_poke_bp() interface.
Right, but I think we should do that as another patch, there's a lot of
instances in that file and just changing one or two over is 'weird'.
I can put it on the todo to fix that all up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-07 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 18:06 [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-27 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-03 5:00 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-10-03 8:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-03 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-03 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-04 13:45 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-10-07 8:05 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-10-09 13:07 ` x86/kprobes bug? (was: [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions) Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-09 13:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-09 13:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-09 14:26 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-10-17 19:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-03 13:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-27 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/alternatives,jump_label: Provide better text_poke() batching interface Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-02 16:34 ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-10-03 5:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-08-27 18:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-02 16:35 ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-10-02 18:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-03 22:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-04 8:10 ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-10-04 13:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-04 14:44 ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-10-04 15:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-07 8:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-11 7:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-11 7:37 ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-10-11 10:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-11 13:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-04 11:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-04 13:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 0:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 0:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 3:10 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 3:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 3:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 4:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 11:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 13:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 17:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 18:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 20:46 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 21:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 21:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 22:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-23 2:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 22:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-22 23:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-22 23:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-23 4:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 9:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-23 16:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-23 17:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-23 19:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-23 20:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-23 22:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-22 3:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-03 5:52 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-08-28 7:22 ` [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke() Song Liu
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2019-08-26 12:51 Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-26 12:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions Peter Zijlstra
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