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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 09:58:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+NkTXTqlqKvEIA2@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+J2x5sPU0uL8bE0@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 05:05:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Also, Masami, how difficuly would it be to do insn_is_nop() that matches
> most/all conventional NOP instructions?

Just looked at that, while NOP and NOPL are relatively easy to do, the
32bit NOPs are a pain to decode since they're actual instructions with
the side-effect of not actually doing anything, like 'mov %reg,%reg' and
'lea (%reg),%reg'. Esp. that latter is popular since it has all the
various displacement encodings to grow it into a very long instruction.

I'll put it on the todo list I suppose, not something for now.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-08  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06 15:05 Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-07 11:38 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-07 16:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-08  8:58     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-02-08 12:29 ` David Laight

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