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Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 18:29:35 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions
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On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:21:33PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Much thanks to Joerg Roedel for talking entry_32.S with me.
> 
> TL;DR, on x86_32 kernel->kernel IRET frames are only 3 entries and do
> not include ESP/SS, so not only wasn't regs->sp setup, if you changed it
> it wouldn't be effective and corrupt random stack state.

Also, i386 is bloody insane...