Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:54:04 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/insn: Extract more information about instructions |
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On 04/15/2014 08:47 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > Yes, if kmemcheck for some reason needs to figure out if an instruction > is a MOV variant we'll need to list quite a few mnemonics, but that list > will be much shorter and more readable than a corresponding list of opcodes. >
You're completely missing my point. If you are looking at MOV, with 80%+ probability you're doing something very, very wrong, because you will be including instructions that do something completely different from what you thought.
This is true for a lot of the x86 instructions.
-hpa
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