linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 13 (objtool)

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Message-ID: <20230914135437.tmb42rqcz6dv6wjc@treble>
Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:54:37 +0200
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        matz@...e.de
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 13 (objtool)

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 09:23:27AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > We could just make smscore_load_firmware_from_file() noinline.
> > 
> > Or we could hard-code the fact that smscore_load_firmware_from_file() is
> > only called in the SMS_DEVICE_FAMILY2 case, like:
> 
> Yeah, this seems simplest. The code in question doesn't seem overly
> complicated and we can simply avoid confusing GCC.

I'm on my way out the door for vacation, if anybody wants to slap a
description on the patch and send it along, feel free :-)

-- 
Josh