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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:10:58 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 01:05:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Any jumps *within* the alternatives should have been handled by the
> assembler already.
> 
> And jumps between the alternatives and other places? Why do they exist?

Yap, I say so too, the alternatives handle everything just fine but then
Woodhouse appeared... :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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