linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] arm64: remove unnecessary ifdefs around is_compat

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:43:42 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Leonardo Bras" <leobras@...hat.com>, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@...hat.com>,
 "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>, "Will Deacon" <will@...nel.org>,
 "Mark Brown" <broonie@...nel.org>, "Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@....com>,
 "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>, "Guo Hui" <guohui@...ontech.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] arm64: remove unnecessary ifdefs around is_compat_task()

On Fri, Jan 5, 2024, at 05:15, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> Currently some parts of the codebase will test for CONFIG_COMPAT before
> testing is_compat_task().
>
> is_compat_task() is a inlined function only present on CONFIG_COMPAT.
> On the other hand, for !CONFIG_COMPAT, we have in linux/compat.h:
>
> #define is_compat_task() (0)
>
> Since we have this define available in every usage of is_compat_task() for
> !CONFIG_COMPAT, it's unnecessary to keep the ifdefs, since the compiler is
> smart enough to optimize-out those snippets on CONFIG_COMPAT=n
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>