[PATCH] powerpc: force inlining of csum_partial() to avoid multiple csum_partial() with GCC10

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 15/10/2020 à 15:25, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:52:20AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> With gcc9 I get:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> With gcc10 I get:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> gcc10 defines multiple versions of csum_partial() which are just
>> an unconditionnal branch to __csum_partial().
> 
> It doesn't inline it, yes.
> 
> Could you open a GCC PR for this please?

Sure.

I also have get_order() 75 times in my vmlinux, all the same as the following:

c0016790 <get_order>:
c0016790:	38 63 ff ff 	addi    r3,r3,-1
c0016794:	54 63 a3 3e 	rlwinm  r3,r3,20,12,31
c0016798:	7c 63 00 34 	cntlzw  r3,r3
c001679c:	20 63 00 20 	subfic  r3,r3,32
c00167a0:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

Christophe