On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 11:30:32AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2019-06-03 11:08:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> > > > > commit e9666d10a5677a494260d60d1fa0b73cc7646eb3 upstream. > > > > Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label". > > > > The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined > > like this: > > > > #if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) && defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL) > > # define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL > > #endif > > > > We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then > > make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO. > > > > Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will > > match to the real kernel capability. > > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> > > Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) > > Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.di...@gmail.com> > > [nc: Fix trivial conflicts in 4.19 > > arch/xtensa/kernel/jump_label.c doesn't exist yet > > Ensured CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO and HAVE_JUMP_LABEL were sufficiently > > eliminated] > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > This does not matche stable-kernel rules. It is nice cleanup, but it > does not really fix any bug (does it?), and resulting patch is too > big.
Please see the original email on the stable mailing list for why this patch was submitted and accepted. thanks, greg k-h
