Re: [PATCH] x86: pgtable_32.h - prototype and section mismatchfixes

[Ingo Molnar]

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > hm, that's an interesting case: we need those annotations probably 
> > because gcc decided to not inline those functions. (this is possible 
> > via the new CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y option) Sam, what's your take 
> > on that?
> 
> gcc uses different heuristics for inlining between the different 
> versions. Therefore to achieve somehow predictable results I added 
> -fno-inline-functions-called-once when CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 
> is enabled.
> 
> So in the above case for any normal kernel build we would see that gcc 
> inlined the above and everything is fine. But for the 
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMTCH cases we do not inline and thus we see 
> that we have a section mismatch.

ah, ok. So i guess this will result in a few isolated cases of __init 
annotations added to inline functions - Jacek fixed one such case - but 
it should not result in the general spreading of __init annotations to 
inline functions, correct? (which i was worried about)

	Ingo
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