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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2016-09-05 18:25:47 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2016-09-07 09:41:11 +0100
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jump_labels: Allow array initialisers
The static key API is currently designed around single variable definitions. There are cases where an array of static keys is desirable, so extend the API to allow this rather than using the internal static key implementation directly. Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ The updated API replacements are:
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(key);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(key);
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_TRUE(keys, count);
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_FALSE(keys, count);
static_branch_likely()
static_branch_unlikely()
@@ -140,6 +142,13 @@ static_branch_inc(), will change the branch back to true. Likewise, if the
key is initialized false, a 'static_branch_inc()', will change the branch to
true. And then a 'static_branch_dec()', will again make the branch false.
+Where an array of keys is required, it can be defined as:
+
+ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_TRUE(keys, count);
+
+or:
+
+ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_FALSE(keys, count);
4) Architecture level code patching interface, 'jump labels'