From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mutex: make mutex_lock_nested an inline function Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:38:12 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20151013203812.GM17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <11282238.AHmyWliPRj@wuerfel> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:30:08PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The second argument of the mutex_lock_nested() helper is only > evaluated if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set. Otherwise we > get this build warning for the new regulator_lock_supply > function: > > drivers/regulator/core.c: In function 'regulator_lock_supply': > drivers/regulator/core.c:142:6: warning: unused variable 'i' [-Wunused-variable] > > To avoid the warning, this patch changes the definition of > mutex_lock_nested() to be static inline function rather than > a macro, which tells gcc that the variable is potentially > used. > -# define mutex_lock_nested(lock, subclass) mutex_lock(lock) > +static inline void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass) > +{ > + return mutex_lock(lock); > +} Can you verify that this results in an identical kernel? Having this a proper argument results in the compiler having to actually evaluate the expression resulting in @subclass, this might have side effects and generate code. A quick grep shows a large amount of trivial code that optimizers will still happily throw away, but it should be verified that this does not result in pointless code generation.
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From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH] mutex: make mutex_lock_nested an inline function Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:38:12 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20151013203812.GM17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <11282238.AHmyWliPRj@wuerfel> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:30:08PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The second argument of the mutex_lock_nested() helper is only > evaluated if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set. Otherwise we > get this build warning for the new regulator_lock_supply > function: > > drivers/regulator/core.c: In function 'regulator_lock_supply': > drivers/regulator/core.c:142:6: warning: unused variable 'i' [-Wunused-variable] > > To avoid the warning, this patch changes the definition of > mutex_lock_nested() to be static inline function rather than > a macro, which tells gcc that the variable is potentially > used. > -# define mutex_lock_nested(lock, subclass) mutex_lock(lock) > +static inline void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass) > +{ > + return mutex_lock(lock); > +} Can you verify that this results in an identical kernel? Having this a proper argument results in the compiler having to actually evaluate the expression resulting in @subclass, this might have side effects and generate code. A quick grep shows a large amount of trivial code that optimizers will still happily throw away, but it should be verified that this does not result in pointless code generation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-13 20:38 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2015-10-13 20:30 [PATCH] mutex: make mutex_lock_nested an inline function Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-13 20:30 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-13 20:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message] 2015-10-13 20:38 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-13 21:46 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-13 21:46 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-14 8:20 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 8:20 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-14 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-14 9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 9:59 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 9:59 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 10:27 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 10:27 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 11:07 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 11:07 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 12:36 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 12:36 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 13:50 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 13:50 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-14 13:58 ` Ingo Molnar 2015-10-14 13:58 ` Ingo Molnar 2015-10-14 14:11 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-14 14:11 ` Mark Brown 2015-10-22 15:02 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-22 15:02 ` Arnd Bergmann 2015-10-22 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-22 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra 2015-10-22 17:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2015-10-22 17:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2015-10-27 18:13 ` Ingo Molnar 2015-10-27 18:13 ` Ingo Molnar
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