linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] fs/buffer.c:init

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:48:07 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>,
	jdike@...toit.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/buffer.c:init_buffer() mustn't be inline

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:01:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> <
> > This patch fixes the following build error with UML and gcc 4.3:
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> > ...
> >   CC      fs/buffer.o
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c: In function ‘init_page_buffers’:
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c:51: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘init_buffer’: function body not available
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c:1007: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
> > make[2]: *** [fs/buffer.o] Error 1
> 
> Can somebody tell why this is not a gcc bug?

It is a gcc bug.

But having a global function marked as extern was already questionable, 
and all assumptions an "inline" would always inline the code are anyway 
now broken in your tree.

So let's work around a gcc bug by fixing the kernel...

> 		Linus

cu
Adrian

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