On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 8:43 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 9012d011660e ("compiler: allow all arches to enable
> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING") allowed all architectures to enable
> this option. A couple of build errors were reported by randconfig,
> but all of them have been ironed out.
>
> Towards the goal of removing CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING entirely
> (and it will simplify the 'inline' macro in compiler_types.h),
> this commit changes it to always-on option. Going forward, the
> compiler will always be allowed to not inline functions marked
> 'inline'.
>
> This is not a problem for x86 since it has been long used by
> arch/x86/configs/{x86_64,i386}_defconfig.
>
> I am keeping the config option just in case any problem crops up for
> other architectures.
>
> The code clean-up will be done after confirming this is solid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Just saw akpm picked this up, but
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 5960e2980a8a..e25493811df8 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK
> relevant for userspace, say 'Y'.
>
> config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
> - bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
> + def_bool 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
> @@ -338,8 +338,6 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
> decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
> is there to test gcc for this.
>
> - If unsure, say N.
> -
> config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
> bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> help
> --
> 2.17.1
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
