From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] x86/alternative: Support indirect call replacement
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:52:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5993ab2e-c877-b566-c860-00a405a823e1@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efabcfb022d29fb0a9ccb39380623573555c2bcb.1507128293.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com>
On 10/04/17 08:58, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Add alternative patching support for replacing an instruction with an
> indirect call. This will be needed for the paravirt alternatives.
I have a patchset that generalizes the alternatives in what I think is a
more robust way. I really, really want to get rid of these hacks. Let
me clean it up an post it...
-hpa
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, x86@kernel.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] x86/alternative: Support indirect call replacement
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:52:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5993ab2e-c877-b566-c860-00a405a823e1@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efabcfb022d29fb0a9ccb39380623573555c2bcb.1507128293.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com>
On 10/04/17 08:58, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Add alternative patching support for replacing an instruction with an
> indirect call. This will be needed for the paravirt alternatives.
I have a patchset that generalizes the alternatives in what I think is a
more robust way. I really, really want to get rid of these hacks. Let
me clean it up an post it...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-17 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 175+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-04 15:58 [PATCH 00/13] x86/paravirt: Make pv ops code generation more closely match reality Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 01/13] x86/paravirt: remove wbinvd() paravirt interface Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-24 13:17 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-24 13:17 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-24 13:17 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 14:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-17 14:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-17 14:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 02/13] x86/paravirt: Fix output constraint macro names Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 9:33 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 9:33 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-16 20:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-16 20:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-16 20:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-17 6:55 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 6:55 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 6:55 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 9:33 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 03/13] x86/paravirt: Convert native patch assembly code strings to macros Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 9:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 9:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 9:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-16 21:04 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-16 21:04 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-16 21:04 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-17 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-17 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-17 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-17 19:10 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 19:10 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 19:10 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 19:42 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-17 19:42 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-18 10:20 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-18 10:20 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-18 13:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-18 13:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-18 13:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-18 10:20 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 19:42 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 04/13] x86/paravirt: Convert DEF_NATIVE macro to GCC extended asm syntax Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 10:03 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 10:03 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 10:03 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 05/13] x86/paravirt: Move paravirt asm macros to paravirt-asm.h Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 10:32 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 10:32 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 10:32 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 06/13] x86/paravirt: Clean up paravirt-asm.h Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 10:59 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 10:59 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 10:59 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 07/13] x86/paravirt: Simplify ____PVOP_CALL() Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 11:01 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:01 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:01 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-22 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-22 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-22 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 08/13] x86/paravirt: Clean up paravirt_types.h Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 11:08 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:08 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:08 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-22 20:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-22 20:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-22 20:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 09/13] x86/asm: Convert ALTERNATIVE*() assembler macros to preprocessor macros Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 11:14 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:14 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:14 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] x86/alternative: Support indirect call replacement Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-25 11:25 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:25 ` Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 11:25 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-16 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-16 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-16 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-17 5:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 5:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 5:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-11-17 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2017-11-17 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-11-17 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 11/13] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt alternatives infrastructure Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-05 20:35 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-05 20:35 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-06 14:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 15:29 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-06 15:29 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-06 16:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 16:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 16:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 15:29 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-12 19:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-12 19:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-12 19:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-12 19:27 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-10-12 19:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2017-10-12 19:27 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-10-12 19:53 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-12 19:53 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-12 19:53 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-16 18:18 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-16 18:18 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-16 18:18 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 5:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 5:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 13:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 13:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 14:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 14:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 14:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 15:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 15:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 15:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 20:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 20:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 20:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 20:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 20:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 20:50 ` [Xen-devel] " Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 20:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 20:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 21:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 21:03 ` [Xen-devel] " Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 21:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 20:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 20:50 ` [Xen-devel] " Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 20:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 20:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 13:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 5:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 13:10 ` [Xen-devel] " Brian Gerst
2017-10-17 13:10 ` Brian Gerst
2017-10-17 13:10 ` [Xen-devel] " Brian Gerst
2017-10-17 14:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 14:05 ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-17 14:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-06 14:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 14:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-05 20:35 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 12/13] objtool: Add support for new .pv_altinstructions section Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` [PATCH 13/13] x86/paravirt: Convert natively patched pv ops to use paravirt alternatives Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-04 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 7:35 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/13] x86/paravirt: Make pv ops code generation more closely match reality Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-10-06 7:35 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-10-06 14:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 14:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 14:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-06 7:35 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
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