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Commit 32c464f5 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86: multi-byte single instruction NOPs



Add support for and use the multi-byte NOPs recently documented to be
available on all PentiumPro and later processors.

This patch only applies cleanly on top of the "x86: misc.
constifications" patch sent earlier.

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c  |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/asm-x86/processor_32.h |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/asm-x86/processor_64.h |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
parent c861eff8
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