Re: [PATCH 2/4] kernel hacking: new config NO_AUTO_INLINE to disable compiler auto-inline optimizations

From: Du Changbin
Date: Thu Oct 18 2018 - 13:03:39 EST


On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:59:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:25:46 +0000
> Du Changbin <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch add a new kernel hacking option NO_AUTO_INLINE. Selecting
> > this option will prevent the compiler from optimizing the kernel by
> > auto-inlining functions not marked with the inline keyword.
> >
> > With this option, only functions explicitly marked with "inline" will
> > be inlined. This will allow the function tracer to trace more functions
> > because it only traces functions that the compiler has not inlined.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have acked patch this before, but this particular patch has extra
> changes that I have not acked.
>
Steven, no extra changes made. I just wronly rebased it on top of mainline.
:)

>
>
> > +config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
> > + bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
> > + default y
> > + help
> > + Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
> > + Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
> > + (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
> > +
>
> What is that?
>
> -- Steve

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Thanks,
Du Changbin