On 2016/12/25 11:54AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:48:24 +0530 > Anju T Sudhakar <a...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > Detour buffer contains instructions to create an in memory pt_regs. > > After the execution of the pre-handler, a call is made for instruction > > emulation. > > The NIP is determined in advanced through dummy instruction emulation and a > > branch > > instruction is created to the NIP at the end of the trampoline. > > > > Instruction slot for detour buffer is allocated from the reserved area. > > For the time being, 64KB is reserved in memory for this purpose. > > > > Instructions which can be emulated using analyse_instr() are suppliants > > for optimization. Before optimization ensure that the address range > > between the detour buffer allocated and the instruction being probed > > is within ± 32MB. > > > > Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <a...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Looks good to me :) > > Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
Thanks, Masami! Ben/Michael, Can you please take a look and let us know your thoughts on this? - Naveen
