Re: PROPOSAL: Extend inline asm syntax with size spec

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 02:20:40AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-01 at 10:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 13:55 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > Anyway, with the below patch, I get:
> > > > 
> > > >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > > > 17385183        5064780 1953892 24403855        1745f8f defconfig-build/vmlinux
> > > > 17385678        5064780 1953892 24404350        174617e defconfig-build/vmlinux
> > > > 
> > > > Which shows we inline more (look for asm_volatile for the actual
> > > > changes).
> > > []
> > > >  scripts/checkpatch.pl                              |  8 ++---
> > > >  scripts/genksyms/keywords.c                        |  4 +--
> > > >  scripts/kernel-doc                                 |  4 +--
> > > 
> > > I believe these should be excluded from the conversions.
> > 
> > Probably, yes. It compiled, which was all I cared about :-)
> > 
> > BTW, if we do that conversion, we should upgrade the checkpatch warn to
> > an error I suppose.
> 
> More like remove altogether as __inline and __inline__
> will no longer be #defined

That's the point, therefore checkpatch should error when it sees them.
Otherwise we'll grow new instances, because it will compile just file.



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