Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] objtool: Function validation tracing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 12:52:35PM +0200, Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> 
> On 9/24/25 12:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 12:08:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 09:42:06AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > >    d051:  perf_get_x86_pmu_capability+0x51    | xchg   %ax,%ax
> > > 
> > > That libopcode is 'funny', isn't that typically spelled "nop" ?
> > 
> > Ooh, I see, it is "osp nop" and yeah binutils also seems to do that as
> > "xchg %ax,%ax".
> 
> Yes, "xchg %ax,%ax" is NOP2 (opcodes: 0x66 0x90), "nop" is NOP1 (0x90).
> 
> That's one more improvement we can do: identify NOP instructions and
> display them as NOP<n>

Right, I have just the function for that. Let me do a patch for you.