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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
       Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
       "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>,
       Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon
In-Reply-To: Steven Rostedt's message of  Friday, 8 August 2008 20:36:02 -0400 <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808082030500.1396@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
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Date: Fri,  8 Aug 2008 17:53:26 -0700 (PDT)
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Are we sure there aren't some good available 5-byte nops?

e.g. for 64-bit maybe 3e 48 8d 76 00
     for 32-bit maybe 3e 8d 74 26 00

Have the chip folks confirmed that exactly the set we have in
asm-x86/nops.h are the only optimal ones?


Thanks,
Roland
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