Peter Zijlstra df25edbac3 x86/alternatives: Add longer 64-bit NOPs
By adding support for longer NOPs there are a few more alternatives
that can turn into a single instruction.

Add up to NOP11, the same limit where GNU as .nops also stops
generating longer nops. This is because a number of uarchs have severe
decode penalties for more than 3 prefixes.

  [ bp: Sync up with the version in tools/ while at it. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515093020.661756940@infradead.org
2023-05-31 10:21:21 +02:00
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