On 2017-06-26 16:03, David Rientjes wrote:
The motivation of commit abb2ea7dfd82 ("compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions") is to suppress clang's warnings about
unused static inline functions.

For configs without CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING enabled, such as any non-x86
architecture, `inline' in the kernel implies that
__attribute__((always_inline)) is used.

Some code depends on that behavior, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/13/918:

net/built-in.o: In function `__xchg_mb':
arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:99: undefined reference to
`__compiletime_assert_99'
arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:99: undefined reference to
`__compiletime_assert_99

The full fix would be to identify these breakages and annotate the
functions with __always_inline instead of `inline'. But since we are late
in the 4.12-rc cycle, simply carry forward the forced inlining behavior
and work toward moving arm64, and other architectures, toward
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING behavior.

Reported-by: Sodagudi Prasad <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
---
 Resend of http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149681501816319 for 4.12
 inclusion.

 Prasad, please add your Tested-by.


I have compile tested this change with clang, please add -

Tested-by: Sodagudi Prasad <[email protected]>

-Thanks, Prasad

 include/linux/compiler-clang.h |  8 --------
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h   | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
--- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
@@ -15,11 +15,3 @@
  * with any version that can compile the kernel
  */
#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
-
-/*
- * GCC does not warn about unused static inline functions for
- * -Wunused-function. This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef
- * directives.  Suppress the warning in clang as well.
- */
-#undef inline
-#define inline inline __attribute__((unused)) notrace
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -66,18 +66,22 @@

 /*
  * Force always-inline if the user requests it so via the .config,
- * or if gcc is too old:
+ * or if gcc is too old.
+ * GCC does not warn about unused static inline functions for
+ * -Wunused-function. This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef + * directives. Suppress the warning in clang as well by using "unused"
+ * function attribute, which is redundant but not harmful for gcc.
  */
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) ||               \
     !defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
-#define inline         inline          __attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
-#define __inline__     __inline__      __attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
-#define __inline       __inline        __attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
+#define inline inline          __attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
+#define __inline__ __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace +#define __inline __inline __attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
 #else
 /* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
-#define inline         inline          notrace
-#define __inline__     __inline__      notrace
-#define __inline       __inline        notrace
+#define inline inline          __attribute__((unused)) notrace
+#define __inline__ __inline__  __attribute__((unused)) notrace
+#define __inline __inline      __attribute__((unused)) notrace
 #endif

 #define __always_inline        inline __attribute__((always_inline))

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