linux-kernel - Re: Remaining randconfig objtool warnings, linux-next-20200428

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Date:   Fri, 1 May 2020 19:16:18 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remaining randconfig objtool warnings, linux-next-20200428

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:41:30PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> disappears, and it also goes away if I disable inlining that function:

Yes, makes sense. The state objtool tracks is strictly per function.

And I suppose GCC-10 just changed around the inline heuristc a bit and
we got lucky.

> --- a/lib/locking-selftest.c
> +++ b/lib/locking-selftest.c
> @@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ static int testcase_successes;
>  static int expected_testcase_failures;
>  static int unexpected_testcase_failures;
> 
> -static void dotest(void (*testcase_fn)(void), int expected, int lockclass_mask)
> +static noinline void dotest(void (*testcase_fn)(void), int expected,
> int lockclass_mask)
>  {
>         unsigned long saved_preempt_count = preempt_count();
> 
>     Arnd