On 3/11/2021 12:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:36:06AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

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Does it do any harm to put it there unconditionally?

Blows up your text footprint and I$ pressure. These instructions are 4
bytes each.

Aside from that, they're a NOP, so only consume front-end resources
(hopefully) on older CPUs and when IBT is disabled.

Thanks Peter.  I think probably we'll do the macro Boris suggested. 
That takes care of the visual clutter, and eliminates the need of using 
.byte when the assembler is outdated.

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Yu-cheng