linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static

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Message-ID: <1294249439.26623.35.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:43:59 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, peterz@...radead.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, hpa@...or.com, 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, michael@...erman.id.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch()

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:32 -0800, David Daney wrote:

> This patch will conflict with the MIPS jump label support that Ralf has 
> queued up for 2.6.38.

Can you disable that support for now? As Linus said at Kernel Summit,
other archs jumped too quickly onto the jump label band wagon. This
change really needs to get in, and IMO, it is more critical to clean up
the jump label code than to have other archs implementing it.

-- Steve


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