From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/5] Mark complex bitops.h inlines as __always_inline
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:03:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090105160306.6b710828.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090104233640.6A7453E6653@basil.firstfloor.org>
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:36:40 +0100 (CET)
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Hugh Dickins noticed that older gcc versions when the kernel
> is built for code size didn't inline some of the bitops.
>
> Mark all complex x86 bitops that have more than a single
> asm statement or two as always inline to avoid this problem.
>
> Probably should be done for other architectures too.
>
Well yes. This is why we did
#if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) || \
!defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
# define inline inline __attribute__((always_inline))
# define __inline__ __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline))
# define __inline __inline __attribute__((always_inline))
#endif
but people had to go and futz with it, make it complicated and break
stuff. Sigh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-04 23:36 [PATCH] [0/5] Couple of x86 patches for 2.6.29 Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 23:36 ` [PATCH] [1/5] Only scan the root bus in early PCI quirks Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 23:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-01-05 1:46 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 23:36 ` [PATCH] [2/5] Allow HPET force enable on ICH10 HPET Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 23:36 ` [PATCH] [3/5] Mark complex bitops.h inlines as __always_inline Andi Kleen
2009-01-06 0:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-06 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-06 14:32 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-07 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-07 19:46 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-06 19:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-07 13:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-08 2:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-08 5:07 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-08 8:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 23:36 ` [PATCH] [4/5] Use asm stubs for 32bit sigreturn codes Andi Kleen
2009-01-05 0:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 23:36 ` [PATCH] [5/5] Avoid theoretical vmalloc fault loop Andi Kleen
2009-01-05 11:47 ` Nick Piggin
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