linux-kernel - Re: Porting "jump labels" to userspace

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Message-ID: <4D5C30D8.8070107@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:17:28 -0800
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
CC:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Mark Wielaard <mjw@...hat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Julien Desfossez <julien.desfossez@...ymtl.ca>,
	dominique.toupin@...csson.com, ltt-dev@...ts.casi.polymtl.ca,
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	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
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	avi@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, sam@...nborg.org,
	michael@...erman.id.au, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Porting "jump labels" to userspace

On 02/16/2011 12:04 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> IMHO there is not really so much to the in-kernel implementation that it's
> worth attempting to reuse the code in userland.  Pretty much all the work
> is in the details of the implementation that would naturally differ a lot
> in a different context.  If you understand the mechanism and the machine
> details, then implementing it well for a userland context is not a big deal
> and is cleaner to do from scratch than shoe-horning kernel-centric code
> into a wildly different context.
>

Good point.

Certainly the details of maintaining instruction cache coherency may be 
different in userspace.

David Daney
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