Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: add kprobe-booster to X86_64

[Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:50 -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
> 
> Thank you for cleaning this up.
> 
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] x86: kprobes leftover cleanups
> > 
> > Eliminate __always_inline, all of these static functions are
> > only called once.  Minor whitespace cleanup.  Eliminate one
> > supefluous return at end of void function.  Reverse sense of
> > #ifndef to be #ifdef to show the case only affects X86_32.
> 
> Unfortunately, to prevent kprobe recursive call, all functions which
> is called from kprobes must be inlined or have __kprobes.
> If __always_inline macro still work, I prefer to use it. If not,
> it must have a __kprobe attribute like as below.

I thought all static functions that were only called once were
automatically inlined these days?  Otherwise __always_inline and
inline are exactly the same in the kernel.

Harvey