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SubjectRe: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 07:50:41AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 19/10/2020 à 06:55, Joel Stanley a écrit :
> >>In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
> >>GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
> >>CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
> >>a function.
> >>
> >>It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.

> >1952 bytes smaller with your patch applied. Did you raise this with
> >anyone from GCC?
>
> Yes I did, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97445
>
> For the time being, it's at a standstill.

The kernel should just use __always_inline if that is what it *wants*;
that is true here most likely. GCC could perhaps improve its heuristics
so that it no longer thinks these functions are often too big for
inlining (they *are* pretty big, but not after basic optimisations with
constant integer arguments).


Segher

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