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

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Message-ID: <4D24BED1.5000900@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:56:17 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, peterz@...radead.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, 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 01/05/2011 09:43 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ralf is really good... perhaps we can get the conflicts resolved?

	-hpa
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