This helps preventing a BUG* or WARN* in some static inline from
preventing that (or one of its callers) being inlined, so should allow
gcc to make better informed inlining decisions.
For example, with gcc 9.2, tcp_fastopen_no_cookie() vanishes from
net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.o. It does not itself have any BUG or WARN, but
it calls dst_metric() which has a WARN_ON_ONCE - and despite that
WARN_ON_ONCE vanishing since the condition is compile-time false,
dst_metric() is apparently sufficiently "large" that when it gets
inlined into tcp_fastopen_no_cookie(), the latter becomes too large
for inlining.
Overall, if one asks size(1), .text decreases a little and .data
increases by about the same amount (x86-64 defconfig)
$ size vmlinux.{before,after}
text data bss dec hex filename
19709726 5202600 1630280 26542606 195020e vmlinux.before
19709330 5203068 1630280 26542678 1950256 vmlinux.after
while bloat-o-meter says
add/remove: 10/28 grow/shrink: 103/51 up/down: 3669/-2854 (815)
...
Total: Before=14783683, After=14784498, chg +0.01%
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
index 6804d6642767..facba9bc30ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
#define _BUG_FLAGS(ins, flags) \
do { \
- asm volatile("1:\t" ins "\n" \
+ asm_inline volatile("1:\t" ins "\n" \
".pushsection __bug_table,\"aw\"\n" \
"2:\t" __BUG_REL(1b) "\t# bug_entry::bug_addr\n" \
"\t" __BUG_REL(%c0) "\t# bug_entry::file\n" \
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ do {
\
#define _BUG_FLAGS(ins, flags) \
do { \
- asm volatile("1:\t" ins "\n" \
+ asm_inline volatile("1:\t" ins "\n" \
".pushsection __bug_table,\"aw\"\n" \
"2:\t" __BUG_REL(1b) "\t# bug_entry::bug_addr\n" \
"\t.word %c0" "\t# bug_entry::flags\n" \
--
2.20.1
