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Message-ID: <1318531022.12224.13.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:37:02 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 09/10] x86/jump_label: use GENERIC_NOP5_ATOMIC
instead of jmp5 +0
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:57 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 08:40 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 10/12/2011 05:08 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> >>
> >> GENERIC_NOP5_ATOMIC should make a better nop.
> >>
> > On 32 bits, yes. On 64 bits you should use P6_NOP5_ATOMIC.
>
> Something like this?
>
No, we only care about 5byte nops here. Look at ideal_nop in
alterative.c
-- Steve
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