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Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:43:16 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] fbdev: c2p: Fix link failure on non-inlining

Hi Yamada-san,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:45 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:13 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > When the compiler decides not to inline the Chunky-to-Planar core
> > functions, the build fails with:
> >
> >     c2p_planar.c:(.text+0xd6): undefined reference to `c2p_unsupported'
> >     c2p_planar.c:(.text+0x1dc): undefined reference to `c2p_unsupported'
> >     c2p_iplan2.c:(.text+0xc4): undefined reference to `c2p_unsupported'
> >     c2p_iplan2.c:(.text+0x150): undefined reference to `c2p_unsupported'
> >
> > Fix this by marking the functions __always_inline.
> >
> > Reported-by: noreply@...erman.id.au
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> > ---
> > Fixes: 025f072e5823947c ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly")
> >
> > As this is a patch in akpm's tree, the commit ID in the Fixes tag is not
> > stable.
>
> BTW, that Fixes tag is incorrect.
>
> Irrespective of 025f072e5823947c, you could manually enable
> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING from menuconfig etc.

Merely enabling that doesn't help.
You also need CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y, while the
default is CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE=y.
Which is why my all{mod,yes}config builds never caught that :-(

> So, this build error would have been found much earlier
> if somebody had been running randconfig tests on m68k.

It's been a while I did that...

BTW, does randconfig randomize choices these days?
I remember it didn't use to do that.

> It is impossible to detect this error on other architectures
> because the driver config options are guarded by
> 'depends on ATARI' or 'depends on AMIGA'.
>
> The correct tag is:
>
> Fixes: 9012d011660e ("compiler: allow all arches to enable
> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING")
>
> The commit id is stable.

Thanks, will update.

> As an additional work,
> depends on (AMIGA || COMPILE_TEST)
> would be nice unless this driver contains m68k-specific code.

The Amiga and Atari frame buffer drivers need <asm/{amiga,atari}hw.h>,
and the Atari driver contains inline asm.

The C2P code could be put behind its own Kconfig symbol, I guess.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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