On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:24:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The optimize-nops thing needs it too, I think.
Ah, it is called only from apply_alternatives() but sure, it is safer this way. Lemme do that and run it through the boxes to see whether anything catches fire. > Again, this will never matter in practice (even if somebody has a i486 > s till, the prefetch window size is like 16 bytes or something), but > from a documentation standpoint it's good. Right. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.