linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:44:59 -0400
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, jamborm@....gnu.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...gic.com>,
	qla2xxx-upstream@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> writes:

>> The last point is what Denys introduced in the kernel with
>> bc27fb68aaad ("include/uapi/linux/byteorder, swab: force inlining of
>> some byteswap operations"). So maybe it's better after all to revert
>> that patch, to have a higher confidence in the same bug not appearing
>> elsewhere. It's also really a workaround for another quirk of the
>> compiler, but that one only results in duplicated functions in object
>> code rather than functions that end in the middle.

James> Yes, I think this is my preferred option.

Same here.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering