cpumask: Switch from inline to __always_inline
On recent (v6.6+) builds with Clang (based on Clang 18.0.0) and certain configurations [0], I'm finding that (lack of) inlining decisions may lead to section mismatch warnings like the following: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: cpumask_andnot (section: .text) -> cpuhp_bringup_cpus_parallel.tmp_mask (section: .init.data) ERROR: modpost: Section mismatches detected. or more confusingly: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: cpumask_andnot+0x5f (section: .text) -> efi_systab_phys (section: .init.data) The first warning makes a little sense, because cpuhp_bringup_cpus_parallel() (an __init function) calls cpumask_andnot() on tmp_mask (an __initdata symbol). If the compiler doesn't inline cpumask_andnot(), this may appear like a mismatch. The second warning makes less sense, but might be because efi_systab_phys and cpuhp_bringup_cpus_parallel.tmp_mask are laid out near each other, and the latter isn't a proper C symbol definition. In any case, it seems a reasonable solution to suggest more strongly to the compiler that these cpumask macros *must* be inlined, as 'inline' is just a recommendation. This change has been previously proposed in the past as: Subject: [PATCH 1/3] bitmap: switch from inline to __always_inline https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221027043810.350460-2-yury.norov@gmail.com/ But the change has been split up, to separately justify the cpumask changes (which drive my work) and the bitmap/const optimizations (that Yury separately proposed for other reasons). This ends up as somewhere between a "rebase" and "rewrite" -- I had to rewrite most of the patch. According to bloat-o-meter, vmlinux decreases minimally in size (-0.00% to -0.01%, depending on the version of GCC or Clang and .config in question) with this series of changes: gcc 13.2.0, x86_64_defconfig -3005 bytes, Before=21944501, After=21941496, chg -0.01% clang 16.0.6, x86_64_defconfig -105 bytes, Before=22571692, After=22571587, chg -0.00% gcc 9.5.0, x86_64_defconfig -1771 bytes, Before=21557598, After=21555827, chg -0.01% clang 18.0_pre516547 (ChromiumOS toolchain), x86_64_defconfig -191 bytes, Before=22615339, After=22615148, chg -0.00% clang 18.0_pre516547 (ChromiumOS toolchain), based on ChromiumOS config + gcov -979 bytes, Before=76294783, After=76293804, chg -0.00% [0] CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y ('select'ed for x86 as of [1]) and CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL. [1] commit 0c7ffa32 ("x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it") Co-developed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
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