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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 9474501dd6cc..b4a1ea762698 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -123,6 +123,15 @@ Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --------------------------- +What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING +When: June 2006 +Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january + 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not, + the option should just go away entirely. +Who: Arjan van de Ven + +--------------------------- + What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md When: July 2006 Files: drivers/md/md.c diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h index 8249115a1f73..6f5cc6f0e7a6 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ /* These definitions are for GCC v4.x. */ #include <linux/compiler-gcc.h> +#ifdef CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING +# undef inline +# undef __inline__ +# undef __inline +# define inline inline __attribute__((always_inline)) +# define __inline__ __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline)) +# define __inline __inline __attribute__((always_inline)) +#endif + #define __attribute_used__ __attribute__((__used__)) #define __must_check __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) #define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index a609235a517f..a314e663d517 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -195,6 +195,20 @@ config FRAME_POINTER some architectures or if you use external debuggers. If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N. +config FORCED_INLINING + bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + default y + help + This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions + developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to + do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of + compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and + disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully + this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can + become the default in the future, until then this option is there to + test gcc for this. + config RCU_TORTURE_TEST tristate "torture tests for RCU" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |