On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 01:22:02PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > Since commit b03fc1173c0c ("bitops: let optimize out non-atomic bitops > on compile-time constants"), the non-atomic bitops are macros which can > be expanded by the compilers into compile-time expressions, which will > result in better optimized object code. Unfortunately, turned out that > passing `volatile` to those macros discards any possibility of > optimization, as the compilers then don't even try to look whether > the passed bitmap is known at compilation time. In addition to that, > the mentioned linkmode helpers are marked with `inline`, not > `__always_inline`, meaning that it's not guaranteed some compiler won't > uninline them for no reason, which will also effectively prevent them > from being optimized (it's a well-known thing the compilers sometimes > uninline `2 + 2`). > Convert linkmode_*_bit() from inlines to macros. Their calling > convention are 1:1 with the corresponding bitops, so that it's not even > needed to enumerate and map the arguments, only the names. No changes in > vmlinux' object code (compiled by LLVM for x86_64) whatsoever, but that > doesn't necessarily means the change is meaningless. > > Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>