linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

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Message-Id: <1263842482.5059.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:21:22 -0800
From:	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	utrace-devel <utrace-devel@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>,
	Mark Wielaard <mjw@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:58 -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Jim Keniston wrote:
> > Not really.  For #3 (boosting), you need to know everything for #2,  
> > plus be able to compute the length of each instruction -- which we can  
> > now do for x86.  To emulate an instruction (#4), you need to replicate  
> > what it does, side-effects and all.  The x86 instruction set seems to  
> > be adding new floating-point instructions all the time, and I bet even  
> > Masami doesn't know what they all do, but so far, they all seem to  
> > adhere to the instruction-length rules encoded in Masami's instruction  
> > decoder.
> 
> Actually, current x86 decoder doesn't support FP(x87) instructions.(even
> it already supported AVX) But I think it's not so hard to add it.
> 

At one point I verified that it worked for all the x87 instructions in
libm:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/utrace-devel/2009-March/msg00031.html
I'm pretty sure I tested mmx instructions as well.  But I guess this was
before you rearranged the opcode tables.

Yeah, it wouldn't be hard to add back in, at least for purposes of
computing instruction lengths.

Jim

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