static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()

So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does
all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a
more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the
various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels.

Typical usage scenarios:

        #include <linux/static_key.h>

        struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;

        if (static_key_false(&key))
                do unlikely code
        else
                do likely code

Or:

        if (static_key_true(&key))
                do likely code
        else
                do unlikely code

The static key is modified via:

        static_key_slow_inc(&key);
        ...
        static_key_slow_dec(&key);

The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an
expensive operation.

I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note
that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename
blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label
patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to
decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit.

On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to
likely()/unlikely() branches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
index a32b18ce6ead..3a16c1483b45 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
 
 #define JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE 5
 
-#define JUMP_LABEL_INITIAL_NOP ".byte 0xe9 \n\t .long 0\n\t"
+#define STATIC_KEY_INITIAL_NOP ".byte 0xe9 \n\t .long 0\n\t"
 
-static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key)
+static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key *key)
 {
 	asm goto("1:"
-		JUMP_LABEL_INITIAL_NOP
+		STATIC_KEY_INITIAL_NOP
 		".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\" \n\t"
 		_ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
 		_ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"