From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757890AbZEKJ1y (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755961AbZEKJ1n (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:43 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41297 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756986AbZEKJ1n (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:32 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , lkml , systemtap , kvm , Jim Keniston , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Frederic Weisbecker , Andi Kleen , Vegard Nossum , Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v5 1/7] x86: instruction decorder API Message-ID: <20090511092731.GA23875@infradead.org> References: <20090509004829.5505.38720.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090509004841.5505.48140.stgit@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090509004841.5505.48140.stgit@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:48:42PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Add x86 instruction decoder to arch-specific libraries. This decoder > can decode x86 instructions used in kernel into prefix, opcode, modrm, > sib, displacement and immediates. This can also show the length of > instructions. Could also be used to implement a simple disasembler for OOPS output ala arch/s390/kernel/dis.c? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v5 1/7] x86: instruction decorder API Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:32 -0400 Message-ID: <20090511092731.GA23875@infradead.org> References: <20090509004829.5505.38720.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090509004841.5505.48140.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , lkml , systemtap , kvm , Jim Keniston , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Frederic Weisbecker , Andi Kleen , Vegard Nossum , Avi Kivity To: Masami Hiramatsu Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090509004841.5505.48140.stgit@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:48:42PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Add x86 instruction decoder to arch-specific libraries. This decoder > can decode x86 instructions used in kernel into prefix, opcode, modrm, > sib, displacement and immediates. This can also show the length of > instructions. Could also be used to implement a simple disasembler for OOPS output ala arch/s390/kernel/dis.c?