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Re: x86: spinlock ops are always-inlined

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: x86: spinlock ops are always-inlined
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 - 5:31 pm

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:47:21 GMT


What was the reason for making this change?

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: x86: spinlock ops are always-inlined
Date: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 10:22 am

has no effect on current kernels (which always inline), but it breaks

with an upcoming feature, CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y that lets gcc

decide whether to inline or not. (should have mentioned this in the

changelog, sorry)


	Ingo

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