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Peter Zijlstra authored
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
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