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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] jump label v11: base patch
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> > +early_initcall(init_jump_label);
> 
> Is there any danger of not patching the instructions with NOPs before
> early_initcall is called? I guess for your uses (tracing) there won't.
> And even if there are not patched it will just call the function.

Ah, nevermind - if you don't patch the addresses which are in
_jump_label section, the untouched code will just do far jump (jmpq)
to right after the macro, which is ok.