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A lot of function have the following check:
cmpq %rax,%rdi /* verify address is valid */
ja fusufault
The label is present earlier in kernel .text, which means this is a jump
backwards. Absent any information in branch predictor, the cpu predicts it
as taken. Since it is almost never taken in practice, this results in a
completely avoidable misprediction.
Move it past all consumers, so that it is predicted as not taken.
Approved by: re (kib)
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