Re: [PATCH -v2 6/8] jump_label: Add a new static_key interface

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Technically, one can think: "activate the branch", but we are
> activating not the branch, but the jump label itself.

No you are enabling the branch, you're making the branch body active.

There is no enable/disable/true/false for the jump label, only NOP or
JUMP, and either can result in an active branch body.
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