Re: [PATCH RFC] remove jump_label optimization for perf sched events

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:45 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Yes, I contemplated this. I didn't realized that there are tons of
> jump_labels though.

Yeah, every tracepoint has one, that's by far the biggest user
currently.

> > But is there really any other user for this? All the trace bits are root
> > only iirc and kvm itself only sets them on the guest kernel I think for
> > paravirt, so that's not a problem.
> > 
> The problem I am trying to fix with this patch is not strictly
> virtualization related. 

No I know, its about user-trigerably jump_label conversions, but afaik
that's only perf. The others: tracepoints, and paravirt can't be toggled
by unpriv. users.
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