[PATCH] Do not inline putprops function

["M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>]

Do not inline putprops function

With the recent kexec-tools git tree, both kexec and kdump kernels hang (i.e
kexec -l and kexec -p respectively). This happened after the patch "ppc64:
cleanups" commit b43a84a31a4be6ed025c1bdef3bb1c3c12e01b16. I tried
reverting each hunk and then found out that retaining following lines in
fs2dt.c makes kexec/kdump work.

-static unsigned *dt_len; /* changed len of modified cmdline
-                           in flat device-tree */

[....]

-               dt_len = dt;

I don't have any clue why removing a unused variable would cause the kexec
kernel to hang. After further investigation, I observed that if the putprops
function is not inlined, kexec/kdump kernel would work even after removing
the above lines.

This patch directs gcc to not inline the putprops function. Now we could
invoke kexec and kdump kernels.
---
 kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c b/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c
index 1f551fd..1e01f74 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void add_usable_mem_property(int fd, int len)
 }
 
 /* put all properties (files) in the property structure */
-static void putprops(char *fn, struct dirent **nlist, int numlist)
+__attribute__ ((noinline)) static void putprops(char *fn, struct dirent **nlist, int numlist)
 {
 	struct dirent *dp;
 	int i = 0, fd, len;
-- 
1.6.0.6


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