Ensure that kernel_init_freebale() is not inlined into non __init code
PATCH 1/1 Ensure that kernel_init_freebale() is not inlined into non __init code
From: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Commit d6b2123802d "make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()" reshuffled kernel_init()/init_post() to ensure that kernel_execve() has a caller to return to.
Just for documentation, here's what that commit did.
Orig
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THREAD __init kernel_init()
smp_init()
...
open("/dev/console")
init_post() --> forced to be noinline
return 0;init_post()
free_initmem() --> reaps caller kernel_init()
run_init_process("/init")
kernel_execveNew
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THREAD kernel_init()
kernel_init_freeable() --> __init tagged
smp_init()
...
open("/dev/console")
free_initmem() --> reaps kernel_init_freeable()
run_init_process "init"
kernel_execveHowever kernel_init_freebale() was NOT marked as noinline making ARC gcc 4.4 inline it in non __init freeable kernel_init(), wasting a bit of memory.
bloat-o-meter vmlinux_orig vmlinux
add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 374/-330 (44)
function old new delta kernel_init_freeable - 374 +374 kernel_init 636 306 -330
Signed-off-by Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
--- init/main.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
init/main.c +2 -2
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ static int run_init_process(const char *init_filename)return kernel_execve (init_filename, argv_init, envp_init); } -static void __init kernel_init_freeable (void ); +static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void);static int __ref kernel_init (void *unused) {
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused) "See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance."); } -static void __init kernel_init_freeable (void ) +static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void) {/* * Wait until kthreadd is all set-up.
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