linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] rcu: remove inline from forward-referenced functions

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:00 -0800
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] rcu: remove inline from
 forward-referenced functions

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:37:19PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Some variants of gcc are reputed to dislike forward references to
> functions declared "inline".  Remove the "inline" keyword from such
> functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  kernel/rcutree.h        |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcutree_plugin.h |    4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Seems very reasonable.  For functions declared static and called once, GCC doesn't
really need any help figuring out that it should inline them.

Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
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