On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 09:42:05AM +0100, 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.

OK, understood, thanks for the explanation.

/Jarkko