linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: vget_cycles() __always

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:24:22 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: vget_cycles() __always_inline


* Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:

> Mark vget_cycles() as __always_inline, so gcc is never tempted to make 
> the vsyscall vread_tsc() dive into kernel text, with resulting 
> SIGSEGV.
> 
> This was a self-inflicted wound: I've not seen that happen with 
> unhacked sources; but for debug reasons I'd changed my x86/Makefile to 
> compile no-unit-at-a-time, and that in conjunction with 
> OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y ended up with vget_cycles() in kernel text.  
> Perhaps it can happen in other ways: safer to use __always_inline.

applied, thanks Hugh - i agree that this is worth fixing.

	Ingo
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