Re: [PATCH v1 00/12] x86, alternatives: Instruction padding and more robust JMPs

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Feb 18 2015 - 16:24:36 EST


On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:20:13PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Ok, this looks really cool.

Thanks, I think so too :-)

> Do you have any stats about how many such (affected) patch
> sites we have in say the 64-bit defconfig kernel?
>
> I.e. what's the scope of this optimization?

I'm currently reworking the NOP optimizing aspect. I'll send it out when
it is done along with stats. Probably next week the latest.

Thanks.

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Boris.

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