Commit 5d570cbb authored by Mikael Pettersson's avatar Mikael Pettersson Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: correct/clarify comment in nops.h

<asm-x86/nops.h> describes certain multibyte instructions as
"generic" nops when in fact they aren't nops at all in 64-bit
mode (missing REX.W causing truncation of a register).

Update the comment to state that K8 or P6 style nops should be
used in 64-bit mode. This matches what the alternatives code does.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 1415d160
...@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ ...@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
/* generic versions from gas /* generic versions from gas
1: nop 1: nop
the following instructions are NOT nops in 64-bit mode,
for 64-bit mode use K8 or P6 nops instead
2: movl %esi,%esi 2: movl %esi,%esi
3: leal 0x00(%esi),%esi 3: leal 0x00(%esi),%esi
4: leal 0x00(,%esi,1),%esi 4: leal 0x00(,%esi,1),%esi
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