Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] x86/jump-label: remove support for custom poker

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Nov 11 2018 - 10:06:01 EST


On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 03:17:31PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> There are only two types of poking: early and breakpoint based. The use
> of a function pointer to perform poking complicates the code and is
> probably inefficient due to the use of indirect branches.

Right; we used to have a 3rd way, but that is long gone.

Nice cleanup!