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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:02:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 9:39 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Yeah, makes sense. It would help if one slaps a relative JMP as *not*
> the first insn in an alternatives replacement and the build to warn that
> it can't work.

Maybe with the exception that a short conditional jump inside the
alternative code itself is fine.

Because a branch-over inside the alternative sequence (or a loop -
think inline cmpxchg loop or whatever) would be fine, since it's
unaffected by code placement.

              Linus