linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 perf/core 1/2] uprobes/x86: Add support to emulate nop instructions

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Message-ID: <20250414125558.GC28345@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:55:59 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 perf/core 1/2] uprobes/x86: Add support to emulate nop
 instructions

On 04/14, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> @@ -840,6 +840,11 @@ static int branch_setup_xol_ops(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct insn *insn)
>  	insn_byte_t p;
>  	int i;
>  
> +	/* x86_nops[insn->length]; same as jmp with .offs = 0 */
> +	if (insn->length <= ASM_NOP_MAX &&
> +	    !memcmp(insn->kaddr, x86_nops[insn->length], insn->length))
> +		goto setup;

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>