This should ensure that we can atomically write two bytes (on top of the
retq and the one past it) and have those two bytes not straddle cache
lines.
We also move the label past the alignment instruction so that we can refer
to the actual first instruction, as opposed to potential padding before the
aligned instruction.
Update the tests to allow us to reflect the new order of assembly.
Did you mean .p2align directive instead of .palign ?