Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755038AbbHDDh4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2015 23:37:56 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:36889 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754979AbbHDDhy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2015 23:37:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 05:37:33 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Vlastimil Babka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, jasonbaron0@gmail.com, 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: <20150804033733.GB31787@nazgul.tnic> 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> <20150803200002.GE25159@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150803175757.2adf3275@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150803175757.2adf3275@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 24 On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:57:57PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > That's implementation details, not a general concept that users will > need to know about. Why? It is a branch, regardless of which insn is used on which arch - it is either active and you *branch* to that code or *inactive* and you don't. So now it is actually what it should've been from the beginning... I realize simplifying the terminology around those jump labels/static branches things comes kinda unnatural now. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- 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/