Re: [PATCH v4 09/16] x86/alternative: Remove text_poke_loc::len

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  	 * Second step: update all but the first byte of the patched range.
>  	 */
>  	for (do_sync = 0, i = 0; i < nr_entries; i++) {
> -		if (tp[i].len - sizeof(int3) > 0) {
> +		int len = text_opcode_size(tp[i].opcode);
> +
> +		if (len - sizeof(int3) > 0) {
>  			text_poke((char *)tp[i].addr + sizeof(int3),
>  				  (const char *)tp[i].text + sizeof(int3),
> -				  tp[i].len - sizeof(int3));
> +				  len - sizeof(int3));
>  			do_sync++;
>  		}

Readability side note: 'sizeof(int3)' is a really weird way to write '1' 
and I had to double check it's not measuring the size of some larger 
entity.

I think it might make sense to just break out INT3_SIZE from 
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c into a header, rename it to INS_INT3_SIZE 
and define it to 1, because the opt.c use is pretty obfuscated as well:

  #define INT3_SIZE sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)

Where kprobe_opcode_t is u8 on x86 (and won't ever be anything else).

?

Thanks,

	Ingo