Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] x86: paravirt: make native_save_fl extern inline
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: 2018-06-22 02:24:11
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* Nick Desaulniers [off-list ref] wrote:
native_save_fl() is marked static inline, but by using it as a function pointer in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c, it MUST be outlined.
quoted hunk
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ * Interrupt control: */ -static inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void) +extern inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void) { unsigned long flags;
What's the code generation effect of this on say a defconfig kernel vmlinux with paravirt enabled? Thanks, Ingo