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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 17:34:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
cc:	Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bunk@...nel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem



On Thu, 1 May 2008, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> 
> __weak function with single return statement, did not get inlined when called
> from say

Is it always about inlining? If so, can't we add a __noinline__ to the 
declaration of __weak?

Something like this oneliner?

		Linus

---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 5c8351b..4061fc7 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 #define __deprecated			__attribute__((deprecated))
 #define __packed			__attribute__((packed))
-#define __weak				__attribute__((weak))
+#define __weak				__attribute__((weak)) noinline
 #define __naked				__attribute__((naked))
 #define __noreturn			__attribute__((noreturn))
 
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