Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops callsites to make them patchable

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Mar 18 2007 - 13:04:34 EST


> The bigger problem is that you don't know what registers you can
> clobber. For the pv_ops in hand-written asm, that a big pain. The code
> either has to assume the worst, or the "relocator" has to do something
> more sophisticated (like look for push/pop pairs surrounding the call,
> perhaps?).

You could use the dwarf2 unwind tables. They have exact information
what register has what. But it would likely get complicated.

-Andi
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