On 6 March 2003 08:36, Andrew Morton wrote:
> J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > The console was frozen, with an oops -
>
> This is odd.
>
> > Mar 5 21:17:41 jyro init: Switching to runlevel: 3
> > Mar 5 21:17:42 jyro kernel: mtrr: MTRR 2 not used
> > Mar 5 21:17:43 jyro microcode_ctl: microcode_ctl startup succeeded
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
> > at virtual address d85b0000
>
> hmm, looks like a module address.
>
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: printing eip:
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: c013ce25
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: *pde = 185b1163
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: *pte = 6c69614d
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: Oops: 0003
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: CPU: 0
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c013ce25>] Not
> > tainted Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: EFLAGS: 00010216
> > Mar 5 21:17:44 jyro kernel: EIP is at
> > __constant_c_and_count_memset+0x85/0xa0
>
> Eh? How come the compiler didn't inline
> __constant_c_and_count_memset? What compiler version are you using?
It was seen before:
On 3 November 2002 14:17, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> It seems gcc started to de-inline large functions.
> We got bitten:
>
> # sort -t ' ' +2 <System.map
> ...
> c01876f0 t __cleanup_transaction
> c0150f90 t __clear_page_buffers
> c01d9fa0 T __clear_user
> c011b020 T __cond_resched
> c01d9ea0 T __const_udelay
> c0107150 t __constant_c_and_count_memset
> c0107fd0 t __constant_c_and_count_memset
>
> [~seven screenfuls (!) snipped]
>
> c010c7f0 t __constant_c_and_count_memset
> c010e210 t __constant_c_and_count_memset
> c03609e0 t __constant_c_and_count_memset
> c03634f0 t __constant_c_and_count_memset
> c0107ec0 t __constant_memcpy
> c010fc10 t __constant_memcpy
Here is the cure: force_inline will guarantee inlining.
To use _only_ with functions which meant to be almost
optimized away to nothing but are large and gcc might decide
they are _too_ large for inlining.
More to come if ok'ed for inclusion.
-- vdadiff -urN linux-2.5.45.orig/include/asm-i386/string.h linux-2.5.45fix/include/asm-i386/string.h --- linux-2.5.45.orig/include/asm-i386/string.h Wed Oct 30 22:43:46 2002 +++ linux-2.5.45fix/include/asm-i386/string.h Sun Nov 3 15:58:08 2002 @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include <linux/config.h> +#include <linux/compiler.h> /* * On a 486 or Pentium, we are better off not using the * byte string operations. But on a 386 or a PPro the @@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ * This looks horribly ugly, but the compiler can optimize it totally, * as the count is constant. */ -static inline void * __constant_memcpy(void * to, const void * from, size_t n) +static force_inline void * __constant_memcpy(void * to, const void * from, size_t n) { switch (n) { case 0: @@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ * This looks horribly ugly, but the compiler can optimize it totally, * as we by now know that both pattern and count is constant.. */ -static inline void * __constant_c_and_count_memset(void * s, unsigned long pattern, size_t count) +static force_inline void * __constant_c_and_count_memset(void * s, unsigned long pattern, size_t count) { switch (count) { case 0: diff -urN linux-2.5.45.orig/include/linux/compiler.h linux-2.5.45fix/include/linux/compiler.h --- linux-2.5.45.orig/include/linux/compiler.h Wed Oct 30 22:43:05 2002 +++ linux-2.5.45fix/include/linux/compiler.h Sun Nov 3 15:19:20 2002 @@ -20,3 +20,11 @@ __asm__ ("" : "=g"(__ptr) : "0"(ptr)); \ (typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); }) #endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */ + +/* GCC 3 (and probably earlier, I'm not sure) can be told to always inline + a function. */ +#if __GNUC__ < 3 +#define force_inline inline +#else +#define force_inline inline __attribute__ ((always_inline)) +#endif - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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