* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I imagine that an automatic CFI annotation adder would walk through functions > > one instruction at a time and keep track of the frame state. If so, then it > > could verify that common jump targets had identical state and continue walking > > through them and annotating. I think this would get this case right, and it > > might be necessary anyway to handle jumps within functions. > > This would definitely add complexity to both asmvalidate and the CFI generator. > In fact it sounds like it would push the CFI generator out of its current awk > script territory and more into complex C code territory. I'd count that as a plus: awk isn't a common skillset while C is, and properly written it doesn't have to be _that_ complex. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
