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

From: Jacek Luczak
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 05:03:48 EST


Ingo Molnar pisze:
> * 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)
>

Yep, I was confused about that patch, thus I didn't sent it previously.

Hmm...I forgot that all my kernels where compiled with
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y. There's no mismatch warning printed while
OPTIMIZE_INLINING is not set. Also I've made a fast look into objects and looks
like those two functions are really inlined. I will also take a look on those
functions with CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y && ONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=n.

-Jacek
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