Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] make use of gcc 9's "asm inline()"

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:32 AM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But since we #define the identifier inline to attach some attributes,
> we have to use the alternate spelling __inline__ of that
> keyword. Unfortunately, we also currently #define that one (to
> inline), so we first have to get rid of all (mis)uses of
> __inline__. Hence the huge diffstat.

Ugh. Not pretty, but I guess we're stuck with it.

However, it worries me a bit that you excluide the UAPI headers where
we still use "__inline__", and now the semantics of that will change
for the kernel (for some odd gcc versions).

I suspect we should just bite the bullet and you should do it to the
uapi headers too. We already use "inline" in a lot of them, so it's
not the case that we're using __inline__ because of some namespace
issue, as far as I can tell.

One option might be to just use "__inline" for the asm_inline thing.
We have way fewer of those. That would make the noise much less for
this patch series.

               Linus