Re: [PATCH RFC V4 04/10] x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:08 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> 
> It is no longer used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c |    6 ------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> index 3fee346..2ad0298 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -42,10 +42,4 @@ void arch_jump_label_transform(struct jump_entry *entry,
>  	put_online_cpus();
>  }
>  
> -void arch_jump_label_text_poke_early(jump_label_t addr)
> -{
> -	text_poke_early((void *)addr, ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5],
> -			JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> -}
> -
>  #endif

This was the (first and) last usage site outside of alternative.c, so at
the very least we should clean up arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h.

However, since stop_machine now works early, is there any reason to keep
text_poke_early() itself? Shouldn't we also convert alternative.c's use
of text_poke_early and simply kill the thing off?