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>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h
index 32551d304cd7..b149b88ea795 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ paravirt_init_missing_ticks_accounting(int cpu)
 		pv_time_ops.init_missing_ticks_accounting(cpu);
 }
 
-struct jump_label_key;
-extern struct jump_label_key paravirt_steal_enabled;
-extern struct jump_label_key paravirt_steal_rq_enabled;
+struct static_key;
+extern struct static_key paravirt_steal_enabled;
+extern struct static_key paravirt_steal_rq_enabled;
 
 static inline int
 paravirt_do_steal_accounting(unsigned long *new_itm)
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt.c
index 100868216c55..1b22f6de2932 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ struct pv_irq_ops pv_irq_ops = {
  * pv_time_ops
  * time operations
  */
-struct jump_label_key paravirt_steal_enabled;
-struct jump_label_key paravirt_steal_rq_enabled;
+struct static_key paravirt_steal_enabled;
+struct static_key paravirt_steal_rq_enabled;
 
 static int
 ia64_native_do_steal_accounting(unsigned long *new_itm)