linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 6/8] jump_label: Add a new static

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:57:57 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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	michael@...erman.id.au, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 6/8] jump_label: Add a new static_key interface

On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 22:00:02 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Technically, one can think: "activate the branch", but we are
> > activating not the branch, but the jump label itself.
> 
> No you are enabling the branch, you're making the branch body active.

By making the statement "true".

Otherwise we could just have:

	static_branch_likely(&blah) {
		[..]
	}

And remove the "if".

Then it would make sense to enable or disable it.

> 
> There is no enable/disable/true/false for the jump label, only NOP or
> JUMP, and either can result in an active branch body.

That's implementation details, not a general concept that users will
need to know about.

-- Steve
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