dcache: keep dentry_hashtable or d_hash_shift even when not used
The runtime constant feature removes all the users of these variables, allowing the compiler to optimize them away. It's quite difficult to extract their values from the kernel text, and the memory saved by removing them is tiny, and it was never the point of this optimization. Since the dentry_hashtable is a core data structure, it's valuable for debugging tools to be able to read it easily. For instance, scripts built on drgn, like the dentrycache script[1], rely on it to be able to perform diagnostics on the contents of the dcache. Annotate it as used, so the compiler doesn't discard it. Link: https://github.com/oracle-samples/drgn-tools/blob/3afc56146f54d09dfd1f6d3c1b7436eda7e638be/drgn_tools/dentry.py#L325-L355 [1] Fixes: e3c92e81 ("runtime constants: add x86 architecture support") Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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