Re: [PATCH] tracing: Cleanup the convoluted softirq tracepoints

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 18:46:19 EST


On 10/19/2010 03:38 PM, Jason Baron wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I did, the documentation says that we have nop followed by
> a jmp:
>
> +The new code is a 'nopl' followed by a 'jmp'. Thus:
> +
> +nopl - 0f 1f 44 00 00 - 5 bytes
> +jmp - eb 3e - 2 bytes
>

There is no excuse for needing the second jump here, obviously...

-hpa
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