Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] powerpc/pseries/svm: Add a powerpc version of cc_platform_has()
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 16 2021 - 03:37:23 EST
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 07:18:34PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Could you please provide more explicit explanation why inlining such an
> helper is considered as bad practice and messy ?
Because now we get architectures to all subly differ. Look at the mess
for ioremap and the ioremap* variant.
The only good reason to allow for inlines if if they are used in a hot
path. Which cc_platform_has is not, especially not on powerpc.