Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 06:45:53 EST


On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:36:41AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> That fixed and understood, I shall remove the offending NOPs anyway,
> because aligning instructions in the *altinstr* section is entirely
> pointless as they might still not be aligned when they get copied into
> place anyway.

Yap. It was still a good experiment because we found this shortcoming!

:-)

Thx.

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Boris.

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