Re: [PATCH 1/2] jump_labels: API for flushing deferred jump label updates

From	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/2] jump_labels: API for flushing deferred jump label updates
Date	2016-12-22 13:40 +0100
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On 19/12/2016 15:58, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:30:35PM -0800, David Matlack wrote:
>> Modules that use static_key_deferred need a way to synchronize with
>> any delayed work that is still pending when the module is unloaded.
>> Introduce static_key_deferred_flush() which flushes any pending
>> jump label updates.
> 
> Makes sense I suppose.
> 
> It also appears I forgot to provide new style APIs for this
> functionality as I completely forgot about it for it lives in its own
> file :-/
> 
> In any case,
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

Thanks, I'll merge these through the KVM tree.

Paolo

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[PATCH 1/2] jump_labels: API for flushing deferred jump label updates David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> - 2016-12-16 23:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: flush pending lapic jump label updates on module unload David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> - 2016-12-16 23:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: flush pending lapic jump label updates on  module unload Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-12-19 15:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] jump_labels: API for flushing deferred jump label  updates Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-19 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] jump_labels: API for flushing deferred jump label  updates Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-12-22 13:40 +0100

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