linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: 2.6.38 updates

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Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:43:43 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	andi@...stfloor.org, roland@...hat.com, rth@...hat.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	avi@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, sam@...nborg.org,
	ddaney@...iumnetworks.com, michael@...erman.id.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: 2.6.38 updates

* Peter Zijlstra (peterz@...radead.org) wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:29 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:25:54PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I remember that atomic_t is defined in types.h now rather than atomic.h.
> > > > Any reason why you should keep including atomic.h from jump_label.h ?
> > > 
> > > Ooh, shiny.. we could probably move the few atomic_{read,inc,dec} users
> > > in jump_label.h into out of line functions and have this sorted.
> > > 
> > 
> > inc and dec sure, but atomic_read() for the disabled case needs to be
> > inline....
> 
> D'0h yes of course, I was thinking about jump_label_enabled(), but
> there's still the static_branch() implementation to consider.
> 
> We could of course cheat implement our own version of atomic_read() in
> order to avoid the whole header mess, but that's not pretty at all
> 

OK, so the other way around then : why does kernel.h need to include
dynamic_debug.h (which includes jump_label.h) ?

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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