linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 7/8] s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform

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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:48:19 +0200
From:	Jan Glauber <jang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 7/8] s390/jump-label: add
 arch_jump_label_transform_early()

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 16:26 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> 
> This allows jump-label entries to be modified early, in a pre-SMP
> environment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> Cc: Jan Glauber <jang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi Jeremy,

Your patch looks fine, if you can fix the minor compiler warnings
below. Excluding stop_machine() on pre-SMP also looks safer too me.

--Jan

  CC      arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.o
arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c: In function ‘__jump_label_transform’:
arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c:41:2: error: ‘rc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c:41:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c:41:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘probe_kernel_write’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
include/linux/uaccess.h:108:21: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘jump_label_t’
arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c:28:19: warning: unused variable ‘args’ [-Wunused-variable]
make[2]: *** [arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.o] Error 1


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