Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:36:53 -0500 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: Porting "jump labels" to userspace |
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* David Daney (ddaney@caviumnetworks.com) wrote: > On 02/16/2011 12:00 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > [...]> >> Actually, creating the equivalent of the jump labels for userspace is on our >> list of "things to do" for the UST project. >> >> If Jason and other jump label contributors agree to dual-license the jump label >> generic and per-arch implementations under both GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1, we could >> probably re-use a large part of this code to create a static jump label library >> for userspace. The concerned authors are precisely: Jason for generic and x86 >> code, Steven for some improvements in generic code and David S. Miller for the >> sparc port. After things settle down with the current jump label changes >> proposed by Peter Zijlstra, we might also want to ask for his permission to >> LGPLize his changes. >> > FWIW: MIPS jump label support is now in as of: > > 94bb0c1 (MIPS: jump label: Add MIPS support.) > > I would be the author of that.
Sorry David, my tree was a bit outdated from Linus's head :)
Mathieu
> > David Daney
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