Re: [PATCH v4 00/28] objtool: Function validation tracing

[Alexandre Chartre]

On 11/18/25 10:12, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 08:19:14AM +0100, Alexandre Chartre wrote:
>
> > In that specific case, they are not executed, they are after a jump:
> >
> >    82e7:  __switch_to_asm+0x27  <alternative.82e7>
> >                                 = DEFAULT
> >    82e7:  __switch_to_asm+0x27  | jmp    0x8312 <__switch_to_asm+0x52>
> >    82e9:  __switch_to_asm+0x29  | NOP41
>
> nop41 is a bit naf since x86 can only have 15 byte instructions :-)

Yes, "nop1 x41" would be better for this specific case. But I think
I will just drop it for now as Josh suggested.

alex.