net: Force inlining of checksum functions in net/checksum.h
All functions defined as static inline in net/checksum.h are meant to be inlined for performance reason. But since commit ac7c3e4f ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") the compiler is allowed to uninline functions when it wants. Fair enough in the general case, but for tiny performance critical checksum helpers that's counter-productive. The problem mainly arises when selecting CONFIG_CC_OPTIMISE_FOR_SIZE, Those helpers being 'static inline' in header files you suddenly find them duplicated many times in the resulting vmlinux. Here is a typical exemple when building powerpc pmac32_defconfig with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMISE_FOR_SIZE. csum_sub() appears 4 times: c04a23cc <csum_sub>: c04a23cc: 7c 84 20 f8 not r4,r4 c04a23d0: 7c 63 20 14 addc r3,r3,r4 c04a23d4: 7c 63 01 94 addze r3,r3 c04a23d8: 4e 80 00 20 blr ... c04a2ce8: 4b ff f6 e5 bl c04a23cc <csum_sub> ... c04a2d2c: 4b ff f6 a1 bl c04a23cc <csum_sub> ... c04a2d54: 4b ff f6 79 bl c04a23cc <csum_sub> ... c04a754c <csum_sub>: c04a754c: 7c 84 20 f8 not r4,r4 c04a7550: 7c 63 20 14 addc r3,r3,r4 c04a7554: 7c 63 01 94 addze r3,r3 c04a7558: 4e 80 00 20 blr ... c04ac930: 4b ff ac 1d bl c04a754c <csum_sub> ... c04ad264: 4b ff a2 e9 bl c04a754c <csum_sub> ... c04e3b08 <csum_sub>: c04e3b08: 7c 84 20 f8 not r4,r4 c04e3b0c: 7c 63 20 14 addc r3,r3,r4 c04e3b10: 7c 63 01 94 addze r3,r3 c04e3b14: 4e 80 00 20 blr ... c04e5788: 4b ff e3 81 bl c04e3b08 <csum_sub> ... c04e65c8: 4b ff d5 41 bl c04e3b08 <csum_sub> ... c0512d34 <csum_sub>: c0512d34: 7c 84 20 f8 not r4,r4 c0512d38: 7c 63 20 14 addc r3,r3,r4 c0512d3c: 7c 63 01 94 addze r3,r3 c0512d40: 4e 80 00 20 blr ... c0512dfc: 4b ff ff 39 bl c0512d34 <csum_sub> ... c05138bc: 4b ff f4 79 bl c0512d34 <csum_sub> ... Restore the expected behaviour by using __always_inline for all functions defined in net/checksum.h vmlinux size is even reduced by 256 bytes with this patch: text data bss dec hex filename 6980022 2515362 194384 9689768 93daa8 vmlinux.before 6979862 2515266 194384 9689512 93d9a8 vmlinux.now Fixes: ac7c3e4f ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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