linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] rbtree: add __rb_change

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1208231356010.30263@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:05:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>, riel@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, daniel.santos@...ox.com, aarcange@...hat.com,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] rbtree: add __rb_change_child() helper function


On Tuesday 2012-08-21 00:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>If we have carefully made a decision to inline a function, we should
>(now) use __always_inline.
>If we have carefully made a decision to not inline a function, we
>should use noinline.
>
>If we don't care, we should omit all such markings.
>This leaves no place for "inline"?

The current use of "inline" is to shut up the compiler, otherwise gcc
would emit a warning about "function declared but not used".
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