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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 3/4] x86/alternative: Rewrite optimize_nops() some
On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 09:44:04PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Works as advertised. Next up are 8 12 byte nopes and 8 13 byte nops,
> after that we're left with:

Yeah, we can ignore those, those are the retpoline thunks being patched.
They should be totally unused. These NOPs are after an indirect jmp and
as such pure speculation food.

Arguably I should just merge that patch that turns them into UD2 --
funneling and all that.

But there was some i386 issues... oh well.

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