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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot()
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:28:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070724112843.0cc104c2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707241113180.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > buffered_rmqueue() and prep_new_page() are static functions with only 
> > one caller each, and for the normal non-debug case it's a really nice 
> > optimization to have them inlined automatically.
> 
> I'm not at all sure I agree.
> 
> Inlining big functions doesn't actually tend to generally generate any 
> better code, so if gcc's logic is "single callsite - always inline", then 
> that logic is likely not right.
> 

fwiw, -fno-inline-functions-called-once (who knew?) takes i386 allnoconfig
vmlinux .text from 928360 up to 955362 bytes (27k larger).

A surprisingly large increase - I wonder if it did something dumb.  It
appears to still correctly inline those things which we've manually marked
inline.  hm.

It would be nice to defeat the autoinlining for debug purposes though.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707221351030.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <20070723183839.GA5874@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
     [not found]   ` <20070723190152.GA5755@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
2007-07-23 20:24     ` 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot() Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 20:40       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 21:01         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 21:11           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 21:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 21:37               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-24 17:59               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-24 18:14                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 18:28                   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-24 19:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 19:40                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-24 19:48                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-26 18:07                           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-26 18:19                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 20:27                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-24 19:45                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-26  6:09                   ` commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-23 22:04             ` 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot() Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 22:27               ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24  5:20                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-24  8:17                 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-24  8:22                   ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-24  8:34                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 14:00                       ` Dan Williams
2007-07-24 13:55                     ` Dan Williams
2007-07-24 10:01       ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-24 10:37         ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-24 16:28         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 18:25           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 20:05             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-25  5:09             ` Mike Galbraith

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