Right,
I've been putting away extending struct alt_instr for a long time now,
trying to be conservative about it but I guess this might be the right
time to change that. How about:
struct alt_instr {
s32 instr_offset; /* original instruction */
s32 repl_offset; /* offset to replacement instruction */
u16 cpuid; /* cpuid bit set for replacement */
u8 instrlen; /* length of original instruction */
u8 replacementlen; /* length of new instruction */
u8 padlen; /* length of build-time padding */
u64 flags; /* alternative flags, see <some enum> */
} __packed;
This way we have 64 settings. So we could do:
...
.flags = ALT_FLAGS_STATIC_CPU_HAS,
or something like that and then we can do additional processing/matching
for the alternatives.
Or, we can do
struct alt_instr {
s32 instr_offset; /* original instruction */
s32 repl_offset; /* offset to replacement instruction */
u16 cpuid; /* cpuid bit set for replacement */
u8 instrlen; /* length of original instruction */
u8 replacementlen; /* length of new instruction */
u8 padlen; /* length of build-time padding */
u8 type; /* types */
} __packed;
and have 256 types but that would be limiting as we won't be able to set
more than one.
Hmmm?
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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