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From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/kprobes: Fix frame pointer annotations
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On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:37:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:14:31AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > Right; I already fixed that in my patch changing i386's pt_regs.
> > 
> > But what I'd love to do is something like the belwo patch, and make all
> > the trampolines (very much including ftrace) use that. Such that we then
> > only have 1 copy of this magic (well, 2 because x86_64 also needs an
> > implementation of this of course).
> > 
> > Changing ftrace over to this would be a little more work but it can
> > easily chain things a little to get its original context back:
> > 
> > ENTRY(ftrace_regs_caller)
> > GLOBAL(ftrace_regs_func)
> > 	push ftrace_stub
> > 	push ftrace_regs_handler
> 
> Note, ftrace_stub is dynamically modified to remove any indirect calls.

Yeah, I realized that a few hours after I send this out; as you might
have seen by the IRC chatter on this.

Still, maybe we can wrap the thing in a .macro and reuse things that
way. Because I really hate there are at least 3 (x2 for x86_64) copies
of this around.