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Jason Baron ef64789413 jump label: Add _ASM_ALIGN for x86 and x86_64
The linker should not be adding holes to word size aligned pointers, but
out of paranoia we are explicitly specifying that alignment. I have not
seen any holes in the jump label section in practice.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <e119fbd060c9452c56063ea6148ba1070e7434cc.1300299760.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-04 13:42:51 -04:00
Jason Baron d430d3d7e6 jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface
Introduce:

static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);

instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.

In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:

Define:

        struct jump_label_key jump_key;

Can be used as:

        if (static_branch(&jump_key))
                do unlikely code

enable/disale via:

        jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
        jump_label_dec(&jump_key);

that's it!

For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.

Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.

Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.

Testing:

I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.

jump label configured in
avg: 815.6

jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1

jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-04 12:48:08 -04:00
matthieu castet 8969691343 x86: Fix jump label with RO/NX module protection crash
If we use jump table in module init, there are marked
as removed in __jump_table section after init is done.

But we already applied ro permissions on the module, so
we can't modify a read only section (crash in
remove_jump_label_module_init).

Make the __jump_table section rw.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D3C3F20.7030203@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-23 16:12:45 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 95fccd465e jump label: Remove duplicate structure for x86
The structure in the x86 jump label code uses the typedef jump_label_t,
which is defined by the #ifdef arch type. The structure does not need
to be duplicated there.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 17:37:43 -04:00
Jason Baron d9f5ab7b1c jump label: x86 support
add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formatting ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:33:03 -04:00