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drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c: Deinline do_write_buffer, save 5316 bytes

Message ID 1460140543-12487-3-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
State Accepted
Commit 21a190b970878be8298c3f696aede1de36986817
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Denys Vlasenko April 8, 2016, 6:35 p.m. UTC
This function compiles to 2554 bytes of machine code.
In C, the function is almost 200 lines long.

It has only one callsite, but forced inlining that much code
makes gcc generate significantly worse code. Let gcc itself decide
what to do.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
CC: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
CC: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
CC: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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 drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Brian Norris July 10, 2016, 1:54 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 08:35:43PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> This function compiles to 2554 bytes of machine code.
> In C, the function is almost 200 lines long.
> 
> It has only one callsite, but forced inlining that much code
> makes gcc generate significantly worse code. Let gcc itself decide
> what to do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
> CC: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
> CC: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
> CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Applied to l2-mtd.git
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c
index 9a1a6ff..70dd2b1 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@  static int cfi_staa_read (struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len, size_t
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static inline int do_write_buffer(struct map_info *map, struct flchip *chip,
+static int do_write_buffer(struct map_info *map, struct flchip *chip,
 				  unsigned long adr, const u_char *buf, int len)
 {
 	struct cfi_private *cfi = map->fldrv_priv;