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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-27 13:26:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-27 13:26:17 -0800
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes and small optimizations" * tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits) tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg() tracing: Use modern function declaration jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts" ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write() ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip ...
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@@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ or:
There are a few functions and macros that architectures must implement in order
to take advantage of this optimization. If there is no architecture support, we
-simply fall back to a traditional, load, test, and jump sequence.
+simply fall back to a traditional, load, test, and jump sequence. Also, the
+struct jump_entry table must be at least 4-byte aligned because the
+static_key->entry field makes use of the two least significant bits.
* select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL, see: arch/x86/Kconfig