On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 02:28:32PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 08:20 -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > > This seems weird. I liked v1 a lot better. What's the problem with > > patching in the whole thing? > > > > Also, if you go back to v1, it should be an easy objtool fix, just add > > ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE in front of it. > > The objection was that I was patching in a fairly long set of > instructions. I confess I don't actually know why that's a problem,
You get a giant string of NOPs, a single jmp should be faster.
