Re: [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:50:13PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:28:28PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:42 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:03:41PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > So maybe rename rcutree_plugin.h to rcutree_plugin.c and
> > > > #include "rcutree_plugin.c" in rcutree.c instead.
> > > Hmmm...
> > 
> > Perhaps something like this:
> 
> While I do very much appreciate your time and attention to this...
> 
> My problem with this sort of thing is that when I tried it, it proved
> fragile.  Small changes required lots of rework of forward declarations.
> Putting it at the end makes it work very nicely -- the list of forward
> declarations doubles as documentation for the plugins, and the contents
> of kernel/rcutree_plugin.h (or .c or whatever, either way I end up
> violation about the same number of coding guidelines) is independent of
> rearrangements of kernel/rcutree.c.
> 
> The reason that I would really like to keep rcu_bootup_announce() as
> a function is that it makes it trivial to collect RCU-flavor-dependent
> boot-time information, if needed for some debugging effort.  If I pull
> the string out, this sort of thing becomes much more painful.

And, as noted in our offline conversation, you are absolutely right
that I need to add __init to both definitions of rcu_bootup_announce(),
which I will do, with your Suggested-by.

Fair enough?

							Thanx, Paul

> > cheers, Joe
> > 
> > rcu: rename rcutree_plugin.h to .c and use
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> > index d802419..737dc72 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> > @@ -1783,6 +1783,8 @@ do { \
> >  	} \
> >  } while (0)
> > 
> > +#include "rcutree_plugin.c"
> > +
> >  void __init __rcu_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	rcu_bootup_announce();
> > @@ -1795,4 +1797,3 @@ void __init __rcu_init(void)
> >  	open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks);
> >  }
> > 
> > -#include "rcutree_plugin.h"
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
> > index 17a28a0..ed11d16 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree.h
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
> > @@ -300,8 +300,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_preempt_data);
> > 
> >  #else /* #ifdef RCU_TREE_NONCORE */
> > 
> > -/* Forward declarations for rcutree_plugin.h */
> > -static void rcu_bootup_announce(void);
> > +/* Forward declarations for rcutree_plugin.c */
> >  long rcu_batches_completed(void);
> >  static void rcu_preempt_note_context_switch(int cpu);
> >  static int rcu_preempted_readers(struct rcu_node *rnp);
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.c
> > similarity index 99%
> > rename from kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > rename to kernel/rcutree_plugin.c
> > index 52075da..5ca2d26 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.c
> > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_preempt_data);
> >  /*
> >   * Tell them what RCU they are running.
> >   */
> > -static void rcu_bootup_announce(void)
> > +static void __init rcu_bootup_announce(void)
> >  {
> >  	printk(KERN_INFO
> >  	       "Experimental preemptable hierarchical RCU implementation.\n");
> > @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ void exit_rcu(void)
> >  /*
> >   * Tell them what RCU they are running.
> >   */
> > -static void rcu_bootup_announce(void)
> > +static void __init rcu_bootup_announce(void)
> >  {
> >  	printk(KERN_INFO "Hierarchical RCU implementation.\n");
> >  }
> > 
> >