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* [PATCH RFC 0/8] jump-label: allow early jump_label_enable()
@ 2011-09-29 23:26 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 1/8] jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2011-09-29 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Rostedt
  Cc: David S. Miller, David Daney, Michael Ellerman, Jan Glauber,
	Jason Baron, the arch/x86 maintainers, Xen Devel,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List, Jeremy Fitzhardinge

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

Hi all,

While trying to use the jump-label stuff for my PV ticketlock changes,
I had some problems using jump labels early in the kernel's lifetime
(pre-SMP).

The basic problem is that even if I enable a jump_label_key, the
jump_label_init() initializer ends up nopping out all the code sites.

This series enables early use of jump labels by making
jump_label_init() respect already-enabled keys.

To do this, I've dropped arch_jump_label_poke_text_early() and
replaced it with arch_jump_label_transform_early(), which is the same
as the non-_early variant except that it expects to be operating in a
pre-SMP environment.

I've tested this on x86, but all the other architecture changes are
completely untested (not even breathed on by a compiler).

One big question which arises is whether the _early() function is
necessary at all.  All the stop_machine/mutex/etc stuff that
arch_jump_label_transform() ends up doing is redundant pre-SMP, but it
shouldn't hurt.  Maybe we can just drop the _early function?  It works
on x86, at least, because jump_label_enable() works, which uses the full
form.  And dropping it would reduce this to a very much smaller series.

Thanks,
	J

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (8):
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_early()
  sparc/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_early()
  mips/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_early()
  powerpc/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_early()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_early()
  jump_label: drop default arch_jump_label_transform_early

 arch/mips/kernel/jump_label.c    |   21 +++++++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/jump_label.c |    6 ++++
 arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c    |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 arch/sparc/kernel/jump_label.c   |   24 +++++++++++-------
 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c     |   20 +++++++++++----
 include/linux/jump_label.h       |    7 +++--
 kernel/jump_label.c              |   20 ++++++---------
 7 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.6.2


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2011-09-29 23:26 [PATCH RFC 0/8] jump-label: allow early jump_label_enable() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 1/8] jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 2/8] jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 3/8] x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_early() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 4/8] sparc/jump_label: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:31   ` David Miller
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 5/8] mips/jump_label: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 6/8] powerpc/jump_label: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 7/8] s390/jump-label: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-30 14:48   ` Jan Glauber
2011-09-30 16:03     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-30 16:03       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 11:22       ` Jan Glauber
2011-09-29 23:26 ` [PATCH RFC 8/8] jump_label: drop default arch_jump_label_transform_early Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-30  0:52 ` [PATCH RFC 0/8] jump-label: allow early jump_label_enable() Steven Rostedt
2011-09-30  4:40   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-30  4:40     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-30 15:28     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-09-30 16:09       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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