jump_labels: Allow array initialisers
The static key API is currently designed around single variable
definitions. There are cases where an array of static keys is desirable,
so extend the API to allow this rather than using the internal static
key implementation directly.
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/static-keys.txt b/Documentation/static-keys.txt
index 477927b..ea8d7b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/static-keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/static-keys.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(key);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(key);
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_TRUE(keys, count);
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_FALSE(keys, count);
static_branch_likely()
static_branch_unlikely()
@@ -140,6 +142,13 @@
key is initialized false, a 'static_branch_inc()', will change the branch to
true. And then a 'static_branch_dec()', will again make the branch false.
+Where an array of keys is required, it can be defined as:
+
+ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_TRUE(keys, count);
+
+or:
+
+ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_FALSE(keys, count);
4) Architecture level code patching interface, 'jump labels'