Re: [RFC PATCH 14/26] x86/alternatives: Handle native insns in text_poke_loc*()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Apr 08 2020 - 07:11:34 EST


On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 10:03:11PM -0700, Ankur Arora wrote:
> struct text_poke_loc {
> s32 rel_addr; /* addr := _stext + rel_addr */
> - s32 rel32;
> - u8 opcode;
> + union {
> + struct {
> + s32 rel32;
> + u8 opcode;
> + } emulated;
> + struct {
> + u8 len;
> + } native;
> + };
> const u8 text[POKE_MAX_OPCODE_SIZE];
> };

NAK, this grows the structure from 16 to 20 bytes.