Re: [PATCH] numa: Mark __node_set as __always_inline

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>]

(7/25/13 8:14 AM), Tom Rini wrote:
> It is posible for some compilers to decide that __node_set does not need
> to be made turned into an inline function.  When the compiler does this
> on an __init function calling it on __initdata we get a section mismatch
> warning now.
> 
> Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> Cc: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/nodemask.h |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/nodemask.h b/include/linux/nodemask.h
> index 4e2cbfa..10d0fd9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nodemask.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nodemask.h
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ typedef struct { DECLARE_BITMAP(bits, MAX_NUMNODES); } nodemask_t;
>   extern nodemask_t _unused_nodemask_arg_;
>   
>   #define node_set(node, dst) __node_set((node), &(dst))
> -static inline void __node_set(int node, volatile nodemask_t *dstp)
> +static __always_inline void __node_set(int node, volatile nodemask_t *dstp)

The change looks ok. But, this code doesn't tell us why you changed. Please write
down proper comments here.

>   {
>   	set_bit(node, dstp->bits);
>   }
>