linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: fix rip-relative handling of EVEX-encoded insns.

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Message-ID: <c17fe4db-1365-ce44-3c7e-a3854d911336@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:45:15 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
To:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: fix rip-relative handling of EVEX-encoded
 insns.

On 08/12/2016 07:39 AM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> * Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com> [2016-08-11 17:45:21]:
>
>> Since instruction decoder now supports EVEX-encoded insns, two fixes are needed
>> to correctly handle them in uprobes.
>
> Could you please add the commit that helps support the insns in the
> Changelog.

Sorry, I don't understand the above. Can you rephrase it?