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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Static calls
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:12:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whLu9kG3dqgXUkCrNrTp0NVtdOOWxvonXTfhtq-krXo+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190111200420.qtyffayxceysoarf@treble>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:04 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> But really, to me, having to create and manage all those custom
> trampolines still feels a lot more complex than just making a gap on the
> stack.

There are no "all those custom trampolines".

There is literally *one* custom trampoline that you generate as you do
the rewriting.

Well, two, since you need the version with the "sti" before the jmp.

It would be possible to generate the custom trampoline on the fly in
the BP handler itself, and just have a magic flag for that case. But
it's probably simpler to do it in the caller, since you need to
generate that special writable and executable code sequence. You
probably don't want to do that at BP time.

You probably want to use a FIX_TEXT_POKE2 page for the generated
sequence that just maps some generated code executably for a short
while. Or something like that.

              Linus

             Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-09 22:59 [PATCH v3 0/6] Static calls Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-09 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] compiler.h: Make __ADDRESSABLE() symbol truly unique Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-09 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] static_call: Add basic static call infrastructure Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 14:03   ` Edward Cree
2019-01-10 18:37     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-09 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] x86/static_call: Add out-of-line static call implementation Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10  0:16   ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 16:28     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-09 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-09 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] x86/alternative: Use a single access in text_poke() where possible Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10  9:32   ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 17:20     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 17:29       ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 17:32       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-10 17:42         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-01-10 17:57           ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-10 18:04             ` Sean Christopherson
2019-01-10 18:21               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 18:24               ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-11 12:10               ` Alexandre Chartre
2019-01-11 15:28                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 16:46                   ` Alexandre Chartre
2019-01-11 16:57                     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 17:41                       ` Jason Baron
2019-01-11 17:54                         ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-15 11:10                       ` Alexandre Chartre
2019-01-15 16:19                         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-15 16:45                           ` Alexandre Chartre
2019-01-11  0:59           ` hpa
2019-01-11  1:34             ` Sean Christopherson
2019-01-11  8:13               ` hpa
2019-01-09 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64 Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10  1:21 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Static calls Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 16:44   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 17:32     ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 18:18       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 19:45         ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 20:32           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 20:48             ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 20:57               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 21:47                 ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-10 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-10 20:51   ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-10 20:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-10 20:52   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-10 23:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11  0:56       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-11  1:47         ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 15:15           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 15:48             ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 16:07               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 17:23                 ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 19:03             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11 19:17               ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 19:23               ` hpa
2019-01-11 19:33                 ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 19:34                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-13  0:34                   ` hpa
2019-01-13  0:36                   ` hpa
2019-01-11 19:39                 ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-14  2:31                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-14  2:40                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-14 20:11                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-14 22:00                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-14 22:54                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-15  3:05                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-15  5:01                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-15  5:37                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-01-14 23:27                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-14 23:51                           ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-15  2:28                           ` hpa
2019-01-11 20:04               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 20:12                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-01-11 20:31                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 20:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11 21:05                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-11 21:10                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11 21:32                           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-14 12:28                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-11 21:22                       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 21:23                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 21:25                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 21:36                         ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 21:41                           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-01-11 21:55                             ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-11 21:59                               ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-11 21:56                             ` Nadav Amit
2019-01-12 23:54                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-17 21:10     ` Jann Horn
2020-02-17 21:57       ` Steven Rostedt

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