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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, tglx@linutronix.de,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, andi@firstfloor.org, roland@redhat.com,
	rth@redhat.com, mhiramat@redhat.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	avi@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] jump label v9
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:28:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C17B823.5070008@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100615.101306.260078767.davem@davemloft.net>

On 06/15/2010 10:13 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:28:11 -0400
> 
>> For example, the reason I have it in the code is b/c x86 determines
>> the best no-op at run-time. Are other architectures going to have to
>> require this kind of functionality. Or like sparc, are we going to
>> be able to generally hard-code the nops on non-x86 at compile-time?
> 
> I think most architectures will use a constant nop sequence, in fact
> x86 is the only one I can think of that needs variable nop sequences.
> 

One could potentially see that for other variable-length-instructions
architectures, e.g. S390, m68k or ARM/Thumb2 as well.

For fixed-length-instructions architectures, well, it shouldn't be an issue.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 21:38 [PATCH 00/13] jump label v9 Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:38 ` [PATCH 01/13] jump label v9: notifier atomic call chain notrace Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:58   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-10 15:34     ` Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:38 ` [PATCH 02/13] jump label v9: base patch Jason Baron
2010-06-09 22:35   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-10 15:44     ` Jason Baron
2010-06-10 16:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-10 17:11       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-09 22:36   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-10 12:06   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-10 12:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 03/13] jump label v9: x86 support Jason Baron
2010-06-10 12:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-10 12:14     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-10 13:26       ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-10 14:12         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-10 14:28           ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-10 15:37         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-10 16:24           ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-11  8:12             ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-11  8:30               ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-10 16:29         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-10 15:04       ` Jason Baron
2010-06-10 16:13         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-06-11  0:52           ` Jason Baron
2010-06-11  6:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-11  7:58         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-10 12:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-10 12:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 04/13] jump label v9: tracepoint support Jason Baron
2010-06-10 12:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 05/13] jump label v9: add module support Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 06/13] jump label v9: move ftrace_dyn_arch_init to common code Jason Baron
2010-06-19  3:24   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 07/13] jump label v9: sort jump table at build-time Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 08/13] jump label v9: initialize workqueue tracepoints *before* they are registered Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 09/13] jump label v9: jump_label_text_reserved() to reserve our jump points Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 10/13] jump label v9: convert jump label to use a key Jason Baron
2010-06-10 12:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-10 12:43   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-10 13:57     ` Jason Baron
2010-06-10 14:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 11/13] jump label v9: convert dynamic debug to use jump labels Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 12/13] jump label v9: sparc64 add jump_label support Jason Baron
2010-06-09 21:39 ` [PATCH 13/13] jump label v9: add docs Jason Baron
2010-06-10 12:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-15  3:47 ` [PATCH 00/13] jump label v9 David Miller
2010-06-15 14:28   ` Jason Baron
2010-06-15 15:44     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-06-18  3:45       ` Tony Breeds
2010-06-18 15:18         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-06-15 17:13     ` David Miller
2010-06-15 17:28       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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