* Andrew Morton ([email protected]) wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_COND_CALL_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION
> > +#include <asm/condcall.h> /* optimized cond_call flavor */
> > +#else
> > +#include <asm-generic/condcall.h> /* fallback on generic cond_call */
> > +#endif
>
> The preferred way to do this is to give every architecture an
> asm/condcall.h and from within that, include asm-generic/condcall.h. Your
> [patch 3/9] does most of that, but it didn't remove the above ifdef, and I
> don't think it removed the should-be-unneeded
> CONFIG_COND_CALL_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION either?
>
Conditional calls works just like the previous markers in this aspect :
in order to support embedded systems with read-only memory for the text
segment, I leave the choice to disable the "optimized" cond_call as a
config option even if the architecture has the optimized marker flavor.
I use this include scheme because I want to support both the generic and
optimized version at the same time : if a _cond_call is declared with
the CF_OPTIMIZED flags unset, it will use the generic version. This is
useful when we must place cond_calls in locations that present specific
reentrancy issues, such as cond_call, printk, some trap handlers. The
optimized version, when it uses the i386 mechanism to insure correct
code modification, can trigger a trap, which will call into lockdep and
might have other side-effects.
(I am adding this text in the condcall.h header)
Mathieu
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