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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 8a6b9fdc7ffa..403ac26023ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -350,7 +350,10 @@ struct module
         struct tracepoint *tracepoints;
         unsigned int num_tracepoints;
 #endif
-
+#ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
+        struct jump_entry *jump_entries;
+        unsigned int num_jump_entries;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
         const char **trace_bprintk_fmt_start;
         unsigned int num_trace_bprintk_fmt;