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* [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] jump-label: allow early jump_label_enable()
@ 2011-10-01 21:55 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 1/5] jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 53+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2011-10-01 21:55 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>

[ This is a new version of this series, which drops the need for any
  special _early() function in favour of making sure stop_machine()
  can operate correctly and efficiently in a pre-SMP envronment. ]

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(), allowing it to either
insert an optimal nop, or leave the jump in place.

Part of this series makes sure that stop_machine() is safe to call
in an early pre-SMP environment, by making it just call the function
with interrupts disabled.

git://github.com/jsgf/linux-xen upstream/jump-label-noearly

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (5):
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()

 arch/sparc/kernel/jump_label.c |    8 --------
 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c   |    6 ------
 include/linux/jump_label.h     |    7 ++++---
 kernel/jump_label.c            |   20 ++++++++------------
 kernel/stop_machine.c          |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.6.2


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2011-10-01 21:55 [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] jump-label: allow early jump_label_enable() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 1/5] jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 2/5] stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-02  0:36   ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-03 19:24   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 3/5] jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-03 15:02   ` Jason Baron
2011-10-03 15:47     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-03 16:27     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-04 14:10       ` Jason Baron
2011-10-04 15:18         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-04 16:30         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-04 17:53           ` Jason Baron
2011-10-04 18:05             ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06  0:16           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06  0:17             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06  0:47               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 17:53               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 18:10                 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 18:13                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 21:39                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 22:08                       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 18:15                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 18:33                     ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 18:35                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 18:43                         ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 18:26                   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 18:29                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-06 18:38                       ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 19:34                         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 20:33                           ` Jason Baron
2011-10-06 20:45                             ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 18:50                     ` Richard Henderson
2011-10-06 19:28                       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 21:42                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 22:06                           ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-06 22:10                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-06 22:20                               ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 17:09                               ` [PATCH][RFC] jump_labels/x86: Use either 5 byte or 2 byte jumps Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 18:52                                 ` Jason Baron
2011-10-07 19:21                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 21:48                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-07 22:00                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 22:03                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-07 19:33                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 19:40                                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-07 19:58                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-07 20:04                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-10-10 15:36   ` [PATCH RFC V2 3/5] jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out Jason Baron
2011-10-10 19:58     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-10 20:10       ` Jason Baron
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 4/5] x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-01 21:55 ` [PATCH RFC V2 5/5] sparc/jump_label: " Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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