[PATCH 0/3] extend alternative instruction framework to support more than one alternative

Hi, this small series of patches extend the alternative instructions framework on i386 and x86_64 architectures to support more than one alternative per instruction. The last patch in this series includes a first use of this extension to optimize the get_cycles_sync() function. The extension

[PATCH 0/3] extend alternative instruction framework to support more than one alternative

Hi, this small series of patches extend the alternative instructions framework on i386 and x86_64 architectures to support more than one alternative per instruction. The last patch in this series includes a first use of this extension to optimize the get_cycles_sync() function. The extension