Re: [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Remove inline from forward-referencedfunctions

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Nov 10 2009 - 18:41:00 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:06:20PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 14:59 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > non-inline functions in .h files probably aren't a good idea.
> > ;-)
> > Here are my options:
> []
> > Please note that kernel/rcutree_plugin.h is internal to RCU -- only
> > kernel/rcutree.c includes it, so there is no possibility of conflicting
> > definitions.
> >
> > Any options that I am missing?
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> #ifdef whatever
> #define RCU_ANNOUNCE "Hierarchical RCU implementation.\n"
> ...
> #else
> #define RCU_ANNOUNCE "Experimental preemptable hierarchical RCU implementation.\n"
> ...
> #endif
>
> Use pr_info(RCU_ANNOUNCE) instead of rcu_bootup_announce();
>
> ?

This would still be a forward reference, right? Unless I am missing
something, changing from a static inline to a cpp macro doesn't change
anything.

Thanx, Paul
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