From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat•com>
To: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb•com>
Cc: mingo@kernel•org, tglx@linutronix•de, peterz@infradead•org,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, x86@kernel•org,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, ast@fb•com, kernel-team@fb•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: emulate push insns for uprobe on x86
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 15:04:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171109140416.GA11186@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171109134423.GA8746@redhat.com>
On 11/09, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> And. Do you really need ->post_xol() method to emulate "push"? Why we can't
> simply execute it out-of-line if copy_to_user() fails?
>
> branch_post_xol_op() is needed because we can't execute "call" out-of-line,
> we need to restart and try again if copy_to_user() fails, but I don not
> understand why it is needed to emulate "push".
If I wasn't clear, please see the comment in branch_clear_offset().
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-09 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-09 8:01 [PATCH] uprobes/x86: emulate push insns for uprobe on x86 Yonghong Song
2017-11-09 13:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-11-09 14:04 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2017-11-09 21:53 ` Yonghong Song
2017-11-09 14:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
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2017-11-09 23:02 Yonghong Song
2017-11-10 13:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
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