Re: [PATCH] x86: mark some mpspec inline functions as __init

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 01:58:48PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> The config that reproduces it wasn't shared here; I wouldn't be
> surprised if this was found via randconfig that enabled some config
> that led to excessive code bloat somewhere somehow.

I'm sceptical it is the .config. As I said, those single function calls
which I could replace by hand - the wrappers simply make the code
cleaner. They could just as well be macros FWIW and then the inlining
will be practically forced at preprocess time.

> Oh, I don't expect everyone to; just leaving breadcrumbs showing other
> people on thread how to fish. ;)

Yap, that's appreciated.

> Sure, it doesn't really matter to me which way this is fixed.  I
> personally prefer placing functions in the correct sections and
> letting the compiler be flexible, since if all of this is to satisfy
> some randconfig then __always_inline is making a decision for all
> configs, but perhaps it doesn't matter.

I hope.

Thx.

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