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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
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On 10/15/2010 02:35 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 14:22 -0700, David Daney wrote:
>
>> Really the SPARC code (and any architectures added in the future with a
>> well defined optimal NOP) should be doing nothing here as well.
>>
>> So I could turn the question around and ask:  How many empty definitions
>> of this thing do you want in the tree?
>>
>> I will defer to Steven.  If he wants to push the empty stubs into all
>> the architectures, I will update the MIPS patch and he can remove/revert
>> the 'jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optional' patch.
>>
>> Let me know which option you would prefer.
>
> On IRC, Thomas Gleixner mentioned a better solution (something I've done
> with ftrace). Just add a "weak" stub function. No need to get Kconfig
> involved.
>

Do you want to write that patch, or shall I?


David Daney