On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 02:42:23PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:13:07AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:55:15AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:56:03AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > > > > > [fweisbec: s/disp16/data16, integrate into text_get_insn(), elaborate > > > > comment on the resulting insn, emulate on int3 trap, provide > > > > validation, > > > > uninline __static_call_return0() for HAVE_STATIC_CALL] > > > > > Why did you add full emulation of this? The patch I send to you used the > > > text_poke_bp(.emulate) argument to have it emulate an actual call to the > > > out-of-line version of that function. > > > > > > That should work fine and is a lot less code. > > > > For reference; the below is what I send you. Actually doing the > > __static_call_return0() call while we poke the magic XOR instruction is > > much simpler. > > Ok I'll get back to that. I'll just tweak a bit static_call_validate() > so that it is aware of that instruction.
Ah yes indeed!