Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] rcu: Mark rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() inline

[Joel Fernandes]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 8:41 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:38:18 -0500
> Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think there are ways to turn off function inlining, such as gcc's:
> > -fkeep-inline-functions
> >
> > And just to be sure weird compilers (clang *cough*) don't screw this up,
> > could we make it static inline notrace?
>
> inline is defined as notrace, so not needed.
>
> I did that because of surprises when functions marked as inline
> suddenly became non inlined and traced, which caused issues with
> function tracing (before I finally got recursion protection working).
> But even then, I figured, if something is inlined and gcc actually
> inlines it, it wont be traced. For consistency, if something is marked
> inline, it should not be traced.

Ah I see it, thanks for the clarification Steve! That looks like a
good idea. I withdraw my previous comment.

- Joel