linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: cpuidle: add __init section marker to arm_cpuidle

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Message-ID: <20150702125849.67160aa9@xhacker>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:58:49 +0800
From:	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	<catalin.marinas@....com>, <will.deacon@....com>,
	<lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: cpuidle: add __init section marker to
 arm_cpuidle_init

Dear Krzysztof,

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:59:44 +0900
Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com> wrote:

> 2015-07-02 11:14 GMT+09:00 Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>:
> > It is not needed after booting, this patch moves the arm_cpuidle_init()
> > function to the __init section.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 2 +-
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/cpuidle.c      | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h
> > index 0f74f05..5748d3b 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h
> > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> >  #include <asm/proc-fns.h>
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
> > -extern int arm_cpuidle_init(unsigned int cpu);
> > +extern int __init arm_cpuidle_init(unsigned int cpu);
> 
> No, not here but...
> 
> >  extern int arm_cpuidle_suspend(int index);
> >  #else
> >  static inline int arm_cpuidle_init(unsigned int cpu)
> 
> ... here so the stub for !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE would be marked as well.

when !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE, arm_cpuidle_init() is inlined, and just return -EOPNOTSUPP;
Per my understanding, it will be optimized out by compiler. I'm not sure whether
there is any benefit to mark inlined function as __init. But Per my check, all
other inlined functions in linux kernel have no __init. What do you think?

Thanks,
Jisheng
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