One of the side effects of fixing retbleed for VMX was demoting HOST_RIP target from honorable function to a lowly label: -SYM_FUNC_START(vmx_vmexit) +SYM_INNER_LABEL(vmx_vmexit, SYM_L_GLOBAL) ffffffff81243c49: 0f 01 c2 vmlaunch ffffffff81243c4c: e9 a7 00 00 00 jmp ffffffff81243cf8 <vmx_vmexit+0xa7> ffffffff81243c51 <vmx_vmexit>: ffffffff81243c51: 50 push rax Now I've never measured VM exit latency but is it important to align it at 16 bytes like Intel recommends for functions? vmalexey