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>
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Jason Baron 2010-09-17 11:09:00 -04:00 committed by Steven Rostedt
parent fa6f2cc770
commit bf5438fca2
12 changed files with 442 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#include <linux/async.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/module.h>
@ -2308,6 +2309,11 @@ static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
sizeof(*mod->tracepoints),
&mod->num_tracepoints);
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
mod->jump_entries = section_objs(info, "__jump_table",
sizeof(*mod->jump_entries),
&mod->num_jump_entries);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
mod->trace_events = section_objs(info, "_ftrace_events",
sizeof(*mod->trace_events),