Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:02:22 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Static calls |
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:52 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote: > > Right, emulating a call instruction from the #BP handler is ugly, > because you have to somehow grow the stack to make room for the return > address. Personally I liked the idea of shifting the iret frame by 16 > bytes in the #DB entry code, but others hated it.
Yeah, I hated it.
But I'm starting to think it's the simplest solution.
So still not loving it, but all the other models have had huge issues too.
Linus
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