Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 12:46:44 EST


On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 18:15 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:43:12AM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/jump_label.h b/include/linux/jump_label.h
> > index 152f7de..0ad9c2e 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/jump_label.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/jump_label.h
> > @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ struct module;
> >
> > #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
> >
> > +static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key)
> > +{
> > + return __static_branch(key);
>
> Not very important, but __static_branch() would be more self-explained
> if it was called arch_static_branch().

I disagree, I think it is very important ;-)

Yes, the kernel has been moving to adding "arch_" to functions that are
implemented dependently by different archs. Please change this to
"arch_static_branch()".

Thanks,

-- Steve


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