Re: [PATCH] ARC: ARCv2: jump label: implement jump label patching

Vineet Gupta
2019-07-03T16:15:09Z

On 6/18/19 9:16 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 6/14/19 9:41 AM, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote:
>> Implement jump label patching for ARC. Jump labels provide
>> an interface to generate dynamic branches using
>> self-modifying code.
>>
>> This allows us to implement conditional branches where
>> changing branch direction is expensive but branch selection
>> is basically 'free'
>>
>> This implementation uses 32-bit NOP and BRANCH instructions
>> which forced to be aligned by 4 to guarantee that they don't
>> cross L1 cache line and can be update atomically.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com>
> LGTM overall - nits below.
>

Can you address the review comments soon so this gets merged in 5.3 whose merge
window is looming !