Re: [GIT PULL] kbuild changes for v4.9-rc1

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Alexey,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:59:51PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:51:31 +0200
>>> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
>> +#include <linux/bitops.h>
>> +extern void *__memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
>> +extern void *__memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
>> +extern void *__memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
>> +extern void *memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
>> +extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
>> +extern void *memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
>
> Before too late, those extern keywords aren't needed and
> only slowdown compilation.

Do you have any profiling data backing this?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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