linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: use noinline_for

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1210281930360.19184@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:31:47 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: use noinline_for_stack

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Ming Lei wrote:

> > The comment above fw_file_size() suggests it is noinline for stack size
> > reasons. Use noinline_for_stack to make this more clear.
> 
> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>

Although I am not completely sure that documenting the purpose of noinline 
through this attribute is the nicest thing to do, it's been acked by 
maintainer and it's being used tree-wise, so I am taking this one.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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