bufferhead: force inlining of buffer head flag operations
authorDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:18:21 +0000 (14:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:09:34 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
commitee91ef6173e81819f5ff610c2485802081635657
tree7260d83f05803a90d0d7ca57db6af6c6d884af08
parent075db1502ffd4ff8c58020167484a6e123ae01a3
bufferhead: force inlining of buffer head flag operations

With both gcc 4.7.2 and 4.9.2, sometimes gcc mysteriously doesn't inline
very small functions we expect to be inlined.  See

    https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66122

With this .config:
http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config_OPTIMIZE_INLINING_and_Os,
set_buffer_foo(), clear_buffer_foo() and similar functions get deinlined
about 60 times. Examples of disassembly:

<set_buffer_mapped> (14 copies, 43 calls):
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       f0 80 0f 20             lock orb $0x20,(%rdi)
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq
<buffer_mapped> (3 copies, 34 calls):
       48 8b 07                mov    (%rdi),%rax
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       48 c1 e8 05             shr    $0x5,%rax
       83 e0 01                and    $0x1,%eax
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq
<set_buffer_new> (5 copies, 13 calls):
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       f0 80 0f 40             lock orb $0x40,(%rdi)
       5d                      pop    %rbp
       c3                      retq

This patch fixes this via s/inline/__always_inline/.
This decreases vmlinux by about 3 kbytes.

    text     data      bss       dec     hex filename
88200439 19905208 36421632 144527279 89d4faf vmlinux2
88197239 19905240 36421632 144524111 89d434f vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/buffer_head.h