Hi! > These patches are related to two similar patch sets from Ard and Steve: > > - https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > - https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > > The code is also heavily inspired by the jump label code, as some of the > concepts are very similar. > > There are three separate implementations, depending on what the arch > supports: > > 1) CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE: patched call sites - requires > objtool and a small amount of arch code > > 2) CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_OUTLINE: patched trampolines - requires > a small amount of arch code > > 3) If no arch support, fall back to regular function pointers
Well, it would be nice to mention what these patches do :-).
I guess they are expected to make things slightly faster? If so it
would be nice to mention benchmarks...
(There are even statistics later in the series, but I guess at least
short explanation should be in cover letter).
Pavel
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