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Commit ac0ee0a9 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to patch Jcc.d32 instructions



In order to re-write Jcc.d32 instructions text_poke_bp() needs to be
taught about them.

The biggest hurdle is that the whole machinery is currently made for 5
byte instructions and extending this would grow struct text_poke_loc
which is currently a nice 16 bytes and used in an array.

However, since text_poke_loc contains a full copy of the (s32)
displacement, it is possible to map the Jcc.d32 2 byte opcodes to
Jcc.d8 1 byte opcode for the int3 emulation.

This then leaves the replacement bytes; fudge that by only storing the
last 5 bytes and adding the rule that 'length == 6' instruction will
be prefixed with a 0x0f byte.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123210607.115718513@infradead.org
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