Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] enable port accesses with (almost) full register context

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/9/06 12:36, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Just declare a char-array automatic variable, fill it with machine code, and
>> call it.
> 
> Actually, I rather wanted to do static setup as much as possible and hence
> leave only the filling of the actual opcode to be done dynamically (at the
> price of inserting one or two nops).

I think putting the static code in assembly functions and calling out to
them from a dynamically-generated stub of machine code would be neatest.

It doesn't take much C code to generate:
 call prologue; in/out; jmp epilogue

That's only about 12 bytes of generated code (assuming call/jmp rel32).
Static calls/jumps are very cheap.

You can define the prologue/epilogue functions within the same .c file
inside globally-defined asm() blocks.

 -- Keir



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