jump_label, x86: Add variable length patching support
This allows the patching to to emit 2 byte JMP/NOP instruction in addition to the 5 byte JMP/NOP we already did. This allows for more compact code. This code is not yet used, as we don't emit shorter code at compile time yet. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506194157.846870383@infradead.org
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