Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] jump_label: make initial NOP patching the special case

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 01:25:02PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 17:41, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Instead of defaulting to patching NOP opcodes at init time, and leaving
> > it to the architectures to override this if this is not needed, switch
> > to a model where doing nothing is the default. This is the common case
> > by far, as only MIPS requires NOP patching at init time. On all other
> > architectures, the correct encodings are emitted by the compiler and so
> > no initial patching is needed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> > Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/staging/static-keys.rst |  3 ---
> >  arch/arc/kernel/jump_label.c          | 13 -------------
> >  arch/arm/kernel/jump_label.c          |  6 ------
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c        | 11 -----------
> >  arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h    |  2 ++
> >  arch/parisc/kernel/jump_label.c       | 11 -----------
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/jump_label.c        | 12 ------------
> >  arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c         |  5 -----
> >  arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c          | 13 -------------
> >  kernel/jump_label.c                   | 14 +++++---------
> >  10 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> This needs the following hunk as well, as spotted by the bot:
> 
> --- a/include/linux/jump_label.h
> +++ b/include/linux/jump_label.h
> @@ -220,8 +220,6 @@ extern void jump_label_lock(void);
>  extern void jump_label_unlock(void);
>  extern void arch_jump_label_transform(struct jump_entry *entry,
>                                       enum jump_label_type type);
> -extern void arch_jump_label_transform_static(struct jump_entry *entry,
> -                                            enum jump_label_type type);
>  extern bool arch_jump_label_transform_queue(struct jump_entry *entry,
>                                             enum jump_label_type type);
>  extern void arch_jump_label_transform_apply(void);
> 
Done, Thanks!