From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.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>,
mhiramat@kernel.org, jbaron@akamai.com, David.Laight@aculab.com,
bp@alien8.de, julia@ni.com, jeyu@kernel.org,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:35:26 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1811291831560.21108@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C359EF7-B2B6-4FED-96EB-CB7C91918763@amacapital.net>
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Does anyone know what the actual hardware semantics are? The SDM is not
> particularly informative unless I looked at the wrong section.
I don't think SDM answers all the questions there, unfortunately.
I vaguely remember that back then when I was preparing the original
text_poke_bp() implementation, hpa had to provide some answers directly
from inner depths of Intel ... see fd4363fff3 ("x86: Introduce int3
(breakpoint)-based instruction patching") for reference.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-29 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-26 13:54 [PATCH v2 0/4] Static calls Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] compiler.h: Make __ADDRESSABLE() symbol truly unique Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-27 8:49 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-26 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] static_call: Add static call infrastructure Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/static_call: Add out-of-line static call implementation Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 15:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 16:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-26 13:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64 Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 16:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 17:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 17:56 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 20:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 20:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 21:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-27 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-27 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 6:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 9:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 13:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 13:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 14:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 14:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-11-29 16:33 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 16:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 16:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 17:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 22:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 22:14 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 22:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 22:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 22:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 17:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 17:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 17:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 17:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 17:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 17:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 17:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 18:37 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 16:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 17:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 17:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-29 17:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 17:35 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2018-11-29 17:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 17:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 17:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 18:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-10 23:58 ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-11 1:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 19:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 19:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 20:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 22:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-30 16:27 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-12-11 9:41 ` David Laight
2018-12-11 17:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-12-12 18:29 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-30 16:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-30 18:39 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-30 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-30 20:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-30 20:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-30 20:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-30 21:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-30 21:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-11-30 21:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 19:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 19:22 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 19:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-30 22:16 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-11-30 22:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 19:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 19:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 20:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-29 18:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-29 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 18:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-29 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-29 17:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-26 18:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-26 20:14 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-27 8:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 16:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-26 16:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-26 16:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-26 16:44 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 14:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Static calls Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 20:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-26 22:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-11-26 22:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-12-04 23:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-12-04 23:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-05 15:04 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-12-05 23:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-07 16:06 ` Edward Cree
2018-12-07 16:49 ` Edward Cree
2018-12-11 18:05 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-12-12 5:59 ` Nadav Amit
2018-12-12 17:11 ` Edward Cree
2018-12-12 17:47 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 0/2] dynamic calls Edward Cree
2018-12-12 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] static_call: fix out-of-line static call implementation Edward Cree
2018-12-12 17:52 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] net: core: rather hacky PoC implementation of dynamic calls Edward Cree
2018-12-12 18:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Static calls Nadav Amit
2018-12-12 18:33 ` Edward Cree
2018-12-12 21:15 ` Nadav Amit
2018-12-12 21:36 ` Edward Cree
2018-12-12 21:45 ` Nadav Amit
2018-12-10 23:57 ` Pavel Machek
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