From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" There's several small helper functions in ring_buffer.c that are used in the hot path. For some reason, even though they are marked inline, gcc tends not to enforce it. Make sure these functions are always inlined. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org Reported-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 2760aaca6d1b..04068c0ed927 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1829,48 +1829,48 @@ void ring_buffer_change_overwrite(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int val) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_change_overwrite); -static inline void * +static __always_inline void * __rb_data_page_index(struct buffer_data_page *bpage, unsigned index) { return bpage->data + index; } -static inline void *__rb_page_index(struct buffer_page *bpage, unsigned index) +static __always_inline void *__rb_page_index(struct buffer_page *bpage, unsigned index) { return bpage->page->data + index; } -static inline struct ring_buffer_event * +static __always_inline struct ring_buffer_event * rb_reader_event(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) { return __rb_page_index(cpu_buffer->reader_page, cpu_buffer->reader_page->read); } -static inline struct ring_buffer_event * +static __always_inline struct ring_buffer_event * rb_iter_head_event(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter) { return __rb_page_index(iter->head_page, iter->head); } -static inline unsigned rb_page_commit(struct buffer_page *bpage) +static __always_inline unsigned rb_page_commit(struct buffer_page *bpage) { return local_read(&bpage->page->commit); } /* Size is determined by what has been committed */ -static inline unsigned rb_page_size(struct buffer_page *bpage) +static __always_inline unsigned rb_page_size(struct buffer_page *bpage) { return rb_page_commit(bpage); } -static inline unsigned +static __always_inline unsigned rb_commit_index(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) { return rb_page_commit(cpu_buffer->commit_page); } -static inline unsigned +static __always_inline unsigned rb_event_index(struct ring_buffer_event *event) { unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)event; -- 2.10.2