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authorJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>2010-09-17 11:09:00 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2010-09-22 16:29:41 -0400
commitbf5438fca2950b03c21ad868090cc1a8fcd49536 (patch)
tree9fc5693763263704de8d8ba1c37a84172dbe5eb7 /arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
parentfa6f2cc77081792e4edca9168420a3422299ef15 (diff)
jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto' statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed. Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index 634bf782dca..76561d20ea2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
4#include <linux/types.h> 4#include <linux/types.h>
5#include <linux/stddef.h> 5#include <linux/stddef.h>
6#include <linux/stringify.h> 6#include <linux/stringify.h>
7#include <linux/jump_label.h>
7#include <asm/asm.h> 8#include <asm/asm.h>
8 9
9/* 10/*
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ extern void *text_poke_early(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
182extern void *text_poke(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len); 183extern void *text_poke(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
183extern void *text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len); 184extern void *text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len);
184 185
185#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) 186#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(HAVE_JUMP_LABEL)
186#define IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5 5 187#define IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5 5
187extern unsigned char ideal_nop5[IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5]; 188extern unsigned char ideal_nop5[IDEAL_NOP_SIZE_5];
188extern void arch_init_ideal_nop5(void); 189extern void arch_init_ideal_nop5(void);