Re: [RFC][PATCH] tree-wide: Remove __inline__ and __inline usage

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 11:42 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Do you want me to do that patch, or have you already just done it?

I'd rather see it go through something like -tip than doing it myself
directly, and get at least some of the automated testing before
unleashing it on an unsuspecting world.

I don't think it will affect much, but there *could* be situations
where there are some crusty __inline__ users that actually want
__always_inline behavior.

And we *may* actually have cases where we want the "let compiler make
a judgement call" behavior, so with this change people will have that
as an option. But yes, in the short term, it has the possibility of
regressions due to missed inlining.

                Linus