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Hannes Frederic Sowa c4b2c0c5f6 static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called
Usage of the static key primitives to toggle a branch must not be used
before jump_label_init() is called from init/main.c. jump_label_init
reorganizes and wires up the jump_entries so usage before that could
have unforeseen consequences.

Following primitives are now checked for correct use:
* static_key_slow_inc
* static_key_slow_dec
* static_key_slow_dec_deferred
* jump_label_rate_limit

The x86 architecture already checks this by testing if the default_nop
was already replaced with an optimal nop or with a branch instruction. It
will panic then. Other architectures don't check for this.

Because we need to relax this check for the x86 arch to allow code to
transition from default_nop to the enabled state and other architectures
did not check for this at all this patch introduces checking on the
static_key primitives in a non-arch dependent manner.

All checked functions are considered slow-path so the additional check
does no harm to performance.

The warnings are best observed with earlyprintk.

Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpi-hotplug' 2013-08-30 14:14:25 +02:00
asm-generic include/asm-generic/vtime.h: avoid zero-length file 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
clocksource ARM: SoC cleanups for 3.12 2013-09-06 13:21:16 -07:00
crypto
drm Revert "drm: mark context support as a legacy subsystem" 2013-09-20 08:32:59 +10:00
dt-bindings Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
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kvm ARM: KVM: vgic: Bump VGIC_NR_IRQS to 256 2013-08-30 16:12:39 +03:00
linux static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called 2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
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