[PATCH -tip perf/probes 0/2] x86 insn decoder bugfixes

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@redhat.com
Wed Oct 21 14:39:00 GMT 2009


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> there's still build failures:
> 
>    TEST    posttest
>   Error: ffffffff8103b917:        c5 59 fc ff             vpaddb %xmm7,%xmm4,%xmm15
>   Error: objdump says 4 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 3 (attr:8000)
>   make[1]: *** [posttest] Error 2
>   make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Aah, that's the AVX code...
I assume, random-data-byte-sequence in the kernel binary
contains it.

> config attached.

I'll try to reproduce and fix it.
Thank you!

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com



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