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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] remove jump_label optimization for perf sched events
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:18:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322144284.2921.59.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111124134542.GK2557@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:45 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Yes, I contemplated this. I didn't realized that there are tons of
> jump_labels though.

Yeah, every tracepoint has one, that's by far the biggest user
currently.

> > But is there really any other user for this? All the trace bits are root
> > only iirc and kvm itself only sets them on the guest kernel I think for
> > paravirt, so that's not a problem.
> > 
> The problem I am trying to fix with this patch is not strictly
> virtualization related. 

No I know, its about user-trigerably jump_label conversions, but afaik
that's only perf. The others: tracepoints, and paravirt can't be toggled
by unpriv. users.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17 12:30 [PATCH RFC] remove jump_label optimization for perf sched events Gleb Natapov
2011-11-17 12:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 13:00   ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-17 13:10     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 13:24       ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-17 13:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 14:12           ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-17 13:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-11-17 13:47     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-21 13:17   ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-24 13:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-24 13:45       ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-24 14:18         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-11-24 17:43           ` Gleb Natapov

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