Subject: Re: [PATCH] once: switch to new jump label API

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:14:42 +0200

On 10/09/2017 10:27 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:07:51PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 02:44:41PM -0400, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>>> Eric Biggers <[email-masked]> writes:
>>>> From: Eric Biggers <[email-masked]>
>>>>
>>>> Switch the DO_ONCE() macro from the deprecated jump label API to the new
>>>> one.  The new one is more readable, and for DO_ONCE() it also makes the
>>>> generated code more icache-friendly: now the one-time initialization
>>>> code is placed out-of-line at the jump target, rather than at the inline
>>>> fallthrough case.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked].
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> Great!  Who though is the maintainer for this code?  It seems it was originally
>> taken by David Miller through the networking tree.  David, are you taking
>> further patches to the "once" functions, or should I be trying to get this into
>> -mm, or somewhere else?
>>
>> Eric
>
> Ping.

Given original code was accepted against net-next tree as major users of
the api are networking related anyway, it should be fine here as well to
route through this tree. Maybe resend the patch with a [PATCH net-next]
in the subject line (as usually done) to make the targeted tree more clear.