Patch "compiler, clang: always inline when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is disabled" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

compiler, clang: always inline when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is disabled

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
compiler-clang-always-inline-when-config_optimize_inlining-is-disabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:35:24 -0700
Subject: compiler, clang: always inline when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is disabled

From: David Rientjes <[email protected]>

commit 9a04dbcfb33b4012d0ce8c0282f1e3ca694675b1 upstream.

The motivation for commit abb2ea7dfd82 ("compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions") was to suppress clang's warnings about unused static inline functions.

For configs without CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING enabled, such as any non-x86 architecture, `inline' in the kernel implies that __attribute__((always_inline)) is used.

Some code depends on that behavior, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/13/918:

net/built-in.o: In function `__xchg_mb':
arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:99: undefined reference to __compiletime_assert_99' arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:99: undefined reference to __compiletime_assert_99

The full fix would be to identify these breakages and annotate the functions with __always_inline instead of `inline'. But since we are late in the 4.12-rc cycle, simply carry forward the forced inlining behavior and work toward moving arm64, and other architectures, toward CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING behavior.

---
 include/linux/compiler-clang.h |    8 --------
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h   |   18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

@@ -15,11 +15,3 @@
  * with any version that can compile the kernel
  */
 #define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
-
-/*
- * GCC does not warn about unused static inline functions for
- * -Wunused-function.  This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef
- * directives.  Suppress the warning in clang as well.
- */
-#undef inline
-#define inline inline __attribute__((unused)) notrace

@@ -66,18 +66,22 @@
 
 /*
  * Force always-inline if the user requests it so via the .config,
- * or if gcc is too old:
+ * or if gcc is too old.
+ * GCC does not warn about unused static inline functions for
+ * -Wunused-function.  This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef
+ * directives.  Suppress the warning in clang as well by using "unused"
+ * function attribute, which is redundant but not harmful for gcc.
  */
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) ||		\
     !defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
-#define inline		inline		__attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
-#define __inline__	__inline__	__attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
-#define __inline	__inline	__attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
+#define inline inline		__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
+#define __inline__ __inline__	__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
+#define __inline __inline	__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
 #else
 /* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
-#define inline		inline		notrace
-#define __inline__	__inline__	notrace
-#define __inline	__inline	notrace
+#define inline inline		__attribute__((unused)) notrace
+#define __inline__ __inline__	__attribute__((unused)) notrace
+#define __inline __inline	__attribute__((unused)) notrace
 #endif
 
 #define __always_inline	inline __attribute__((always_inline))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/compiler-clang-always-inline-when-config_optimize_inlining-is-disabled.patch