linux-kernel - Re: [patch 11/12] softirq: Allow inlining do_softirq_own

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Date:   Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:38:33 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai+lkml@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 11/12] softirq: Allow inlining do_softirq_own_stack()

On Fri, Feb 05 2021 at 18:14, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:04 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>  static inline void do_softirq_own_stack(void)
>>  {
>
> Hello
>
> This patch and the next patch have three "#if[n]def" with
> __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ_INLINE and this one is nested in
> __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ.
>
> I wonder if we can use __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ only.
>
> For example, we can move "void do_softirq_own_stack(void);" to around
> the code where __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ are defined in very ARCHs.
> (And for x86, do_softirq_own_stack() is a macro instead of function
> declaration as next patch shows)

We can do that as well. No strong preference.

Thanks,

        tglx