jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 4877a8c..1462d84 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -158,4 +158,7 @@
subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
+config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
+ bool
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"