Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 09:36:14AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 7 September 2016 at 11:07, Mark Rutland wrote: > > In some cases, one side of an alternative sequence is simply a number of > > NOPs used to balance the other side. Keeping track of this manually is > >

[PATCH 1/3] arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure

In some cases, one side of an alternative sequence is simply a number of NOPs used to balance the other side. Keeping track of this manually is tedious, and the presence of large chains of NOPs makes the code more painful to read than necessary. To ameliorate matters, this patch adds a new