Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/insn: Extract more information about instructions

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/17/2014 08:20 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> It's not like the instruction decoder is a generic piece of code right now anyways,
> it only serves mostly [k,u]probes and was built around the their requirements, and
> now everybody are surprised that kmemcheck has different requirements than kprobes.
> 

What *ARE* kmemcheck's requirements?  That's the real issue, I believe.

I also have seen several attempts at using the generic instruction
decoder which has resulted in more complexity, not less, because of
excess generality, so it is not an obvious thing.

	-hpa


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