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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netstamp_needed shouldn't be jump_label_key
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Le lundi 28 novembre 2011 =C3=A0 13:31 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a =C3=A9=
crit :

> Why not just change the jump_label_key to a spin_lock? I can't see th=
at it is held
> long enough to make mutex of any benefit.

Because some arches want to use mutex in their
arch_jump_label_transform() or text_poke_smp()