netdev - Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix adapter->big_page

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     cai@....pw
Cc:     sathya.perla@...adcom.com, ajit.khaparde@...adcom.com,
        sriharsha.basavapatna@...adcom.com, somnath.kotur@...adcom.com,
        arnd@...db.de, dhowells@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix adapter->big_page_size miscaculation

From: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:27:09 -0400

> Actually, GCC would consider it a const with -O2 optimized level because it found that it was never modified and it does not understand it is a module parameter. Considering the following code.
> 
> # cat const.c 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> static int a = 1;
> 
> int main(void)
> {
> 	if (__builtin_constant_p(a))
> 		printf("a is a const.\n");
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> # gcc -O2 const.c -o const

That's not a complete test case, and with a proper test case that
shows the externalization of the address of &a done by the module
parameter macros, gcc should not make this optimization or we should
define the module parameter macros in a way that makes this properly
clear to the compiler.

It makes no sense to hack around this locally in drivers and other
modules.

Thank you.