Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: enforce inlining for atomics

[Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>]

On 2015.04.22 at 07:58 +0200, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:
> * Markus Trippelsdorf | 2015-04-22 07:24:41 [+0200]:
> >I cannot reproduce this issue with my config with 4.8, 4.9 or 5. Could
> >you please come up with a small testcase and open a gcc bug (with full
> >gcc command line)?
> 
> the attached config file should do the trick. Can you try it?

It is definitely a -O2 vs. -Os issue. With your config:

-Os:
 % nm vmlinux | grep " atomic_" | wc -l
736 

-O2 is fine:
 % nm vmlinux | grep " atomic_"
ffffffff852d8300 r atomic_counters_ops
ffffffff83d66bf0 t atomic_counters_read
ffffffff8119cd30 T atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock
ffffffff81172e10 T atomic_notifier_call_chain
ffffffff81172b90 T atomic_notifier_chain_register
ffffffff81172d70 T atomic_notifier_chain_unregister
ffffffff844b0ef0 t atomic_read_file
ffffffff85a0c260 r atomic_ro_fops
ffffffff87616000 d atomic_rw
ffffffff852d8400 r atomic_stats_ops
ffffffff83d66c50 t atomic_stats_read

The easiest fix would be to force always-inline in
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is set.

And BTW only x86 and tile define ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING, so
the rest of the architectures are not affected anyway.

-- 
Markus