Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 22:00:02 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        mingo@kernel.org, jasonbaron0@gmail.com, bp@alien8.de,
        luto@amacapital.net, tglx@linutronix.de, will.deacon@arm.com,
        liuj97@gmail.com, rabin@rab.in, ralf@linux-mips.org,
        ddaney@caviumnetworks.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
        michael@ellerman.id.au, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 6/8] jump_label: Add a new static_key interface
Message-ID: <20150803200002.GE25159@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
References: <20150728132055.203176565@infradead.org>
 <20150728132313.164884020@infradead.org>
 <55B87E7A.2070509@suse.cz>
 <20150729084906.GH19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
 <20150803150359.0e76b576@gandalf.local.home>
 <20150803191816.GC25159@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
 <20150803152810.5a7bcf06@gandalf.local.home>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20150803152810.5a7bcf06@gandalf.local.home>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 625
Lines: 13

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.

There is no enable/disable/true/false for the jump label, only NOP or
JUMP, and either can result in an active branch body.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/