From: Peter Zijlstra Sent: November 11, 2018 at 3:05:53 PM GMT > To: Nadav Amit <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected], H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>, Thomas Gleixner > <[email protected]>, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>, Dave Hansen > <[email protected]>, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>, Kees Cook > <[email protected]>, Dave Hansen <[email protected]>, Masami > Hiramatsu <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] x86/jump-label: remove support for custom poker > > > 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!
Thanks, but I actually should have got rid of the early_poking variable. I will do it for v5.
