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[PATCH] __cmpxchg() must really always be inlined
authorSteve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:24:17 +0000 (07:24 +0100)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:20:17 +0000 (23:20 -0800)
commitc93e834ed994db3290c88391af4c2eea5e3f5f1e
tree8b2891ccd71cc269e40bd0dacfea0f72ed95ef8f
parent1ac4ddd4f263ae2f9297381b6c1dea882225e33f
[PATCH] __cmpxchg() must really always be inlined

With the latest 2.6.15 kernel builds for alpha on Debian, we ran into a
problem with undefined references to __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer() in
a couple of kernel modules (xfs.ko and drm.ko; see
http://bugs.debian.org/347556).

It looks like people have been trying to out-clever each other wrt the
definition of "inline" on this architecture :), with the result that
__cmpxchg(), which must be inlined so the compiler can see its argument is
const, is not guaranteed to be inlined.  Indeed, it was not being inlined
when building with -Os.

The attached patch fixes the issue by adding an
__attribute__((always_inline)) explicitly to the definition of __cmpxchg()
instead of relying on redefines of "inline" elsewhere to make this happen.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/asm-alpha/system.h