linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] kernel hacking: new config NO_AUTO_INLINE to disable compiler auto-inline optimizations

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNASAv3OcujS9RssGue-0Nd+zVh+O4jMOOmKQOqdtWWt9Jw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:11:27 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
Cc:     Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] kernel hacking: new config NO_AUTO_INLINE to
 disable compiler auto-inline optimizations

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:50 PM Du Changbin <changbin.du@...il.com> wrote:
>
> This patch add a new kernel hacking option NO_AUTO_INLINE. Selecting
> this option will prevent the compiler from optimizing the kernel by
> auto-inlining functions not marked with the inline keyword.
>
> With this option, only functions explicitly marked with "inline" will
> be inlined. This will allow the function tracer to trace more functions
> because it only traces functions that the compiler has not inlined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Du Changbin <changbin.du@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>


This subject
"kernel hacking: new config NO_AUTO_INLINE to disable compiler
auto-inline optimizations"
is also too long.

Could you please make it a bit shorter?


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada