Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: 2.6.38 updates

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Peter Zijlstra (peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:29 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:25:54PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I remember that atomic_t is defined in types.h now rather than atomic.h.
> > > > Any reason why you should keep including atomic.h from jump_label.h ?
> > > 
> > > Ooh, shiny.. we could probably move the few atomic_{read,inc,dec} users
> > > in jump_label.h into out of line functions and have this sorted.
> > > 
> > 
> > inc and dec sure, but atomic_read() for the disabled case needs to be
> > inline....
> 
> D'0h yes of course, I was thinking about jump_label_enabled(), but
> there's still the static_branch() implementation to consider.
> 
> We could of course cheat implement our own version of atomic_read() in
> order to avoid the whole header mess, but that's not pretty at all
> 

OK, so the other way around then : why does kernel.h need to include
dynamic_debug.h (which includes jump_label.h) ?

Mathieu

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