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authorJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>2011-03-16 17:29:47 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-04-04 12:48:08 -0400
commitd430d3d7e646eb1eac2bb4aa244a644312e67c76 (patch)
tree0f52534f54d89e41042536ff2f1b2ce74c45c033 /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
parentee5e51f51be755830f57445e268ba50e88ccbdbb (diff)
jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface
Introduce: static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key); instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro. In this way, jump labels become really easy to use: Define: struct jump_label_key jump_key; Can be used as: if (static_branch(&jump_key)) do unlikely code enable/disale via: jump_label_inc(&jump_key); jump_label_dec(&jump_key); that's it! For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(), atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below. Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct. Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write. Testing: I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3 configurations, where tracepoints were disabled. jump label configured in avg: 815.6 jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads) avg: 800.1 jump label *not* configured in (regular reads) avg: 803.4 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 4a234677e213..651454b0c811 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ void __kprobes text_poke_smp_batch(struct text_poke_param *params, int n)
__stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
}
-#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(HAVE_JUMP_LABEL)
+#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
unsigned char ideal_nop5[5] = { 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x90 };