On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:26:04AM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote: > > We could also say that probably there should be a way to say "decode > > only the first insn in the buffer and ignore the rest". That is all up > > to the use cases so I'm looking for suggestions here. > > That's the way it works today, right? One instruction, no matter the length > of the buffer (assuming the length is long enough to include a full > instruction)? > > Because the callers of the decode may rely on parsing only the current > instruction (like SEV-ES), it should probably default to that (although most > of the call points are being updated so you could supply a boolean to > indicate one vs many instructions). The caller doesn't necessarily know the > length of the instruction, so it may provide a buffer of max instruction > length. > > Also, if you want to parse more than one instruction at a time, wouldn't you > need to maintain register context within the parsing, I don't think that is > done today. Or you could chain together some instruction contexts to > identify each instruction that was parsed?
Yah, let's leave it all to the one who actually needs multiple insn parsing. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette