I really wonder if it makes sense... On April 15, 2014 9:03:48 PM PDT, Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> wrote: >On 04/15/2014 11:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 04/15/2014 08:47 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: >>> > >>> > Yes, if kmemcheck for some reason needs to figure out if an >instruction >>> > is a MOV variant we'll need to list quite a few mnemonics, but >that list >>> > will be much shorter and more readable than a corresponding list >of opcodes. >>> > >> You're completely missing my point. If you are looking at MOV, with >> 80%+ probability you're doing something very, very wrong, because you >> will be including instructions that do something completely different >> from what you thought. >> >> This is true for a lot of the x86 instructions. > >Right, but assuming that the AND example I presented earlier makes >sense, I >can't create mnemonic entries only for instructions where doing so >would >"probably" be right. > >If there are use cases where working with mnemonics is correct, we >should >be doing that in kmemcheck. If the way kmemcheck deals with mnemonics >is >incorrect we should go ahead and fix kmemcheck. > > >Thanks, >Sasha
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