linux-next: add utrace tree
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
ananth at in.ibm.com
Wed Jan 27 11:20:55 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08:31PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:35 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> > Probing RIP-relative instructions work just fine; there are fixups that
> > take care of it.
>
> Ah my bad then, it was my understanding you simply bailed on those.
>
> Just for my information, how large are the replacement sequences?
The RIP relative instruction is transformed into indirect addressing
mode using a scratch register.
For details http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126401936114639&w=2.
Ananth
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