On: It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel

[kazinator]

> The idea is that at file open time, the OS has a lot of information that it can use to generate highly specialized code, eliding code paths that are provably not going to execute.

So when you see the bytes surrounding the instruction pointer in your kernel OOPS message, good luck looking for them in the vmlinux disassembly.

[saagarjha → kazinator]

I mean, this is a problem that existing JITs have to face all the time.