Re: [PATCH 2/5] jump label: base patch

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/22/2010 06:07 PM, Jason Baron wrote:
> base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
> assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
> statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
> be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
> might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
> Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
>
>
> +
> +#define JUMP_LABEL(tag, label, cond)		\
> +	if (unlikely(cond))			\
> +		goto label;
>    

Suggest wrapping with do { } while (0) to avoid problems with the 
dangling semicolon or a trailing 'else' from an outer if ().

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