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[v3,1/3] compiler-gcc.h: add gnu_inline to all inline declarations

Message ID 20180607183219.192973-2-ndesaulniers@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Nick Desaulniers June 7, 2018, 6:32 p.m. UTC
Functions marked extern inline do not emit an externally visible
function when the gnu89 C standard is used. Some KBUILD Makefiles
overwrite KBUILD_CFLAGS. This is an issue for GCC 5.1+ users as without
an explicit C standard specified, the default is gnu11. Since c99, the
semantics of extern inline have changed such that an externally visible
function is always emitted. This can lead to multiple definition errors
of extern inline functions at link time of compilation units whose build
files have removed an explicit C standard compiler flag for users of GCC
5.1+ or Clang.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Joe Perches June 7, 2018, 6:43 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 11:32 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Functions marked extern inline do not emit an externally visible
> function when the gnu89 C standard is used. Some KBUILD Makefiles
> overwrite KBUILD_CFLAGS. This is an issue for GCC 5.1+ users as without
> an explicit C standard specified, the default is gnu11. Since c99, the
> semantics of extern inline have changed such that an externally visible
> function is always emitted. This can lead to multiple definition errors
> of extern inline functions at link time of compilation units whose build
> files have removed an explicit C standard compiler flag for users of GCC
> 5.1+ or Clang.
[]
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
[]
> @@ -72,17 +72,22 @@
>   * -Wunused-function.  This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef
>   * directives.  Suppress the warning in clang as well by using "unused"
>   * function attribute, which is redundant but not harmful for gcc.
> + * Prefer gnu_inline, so that extern inline functions do not emit an
> + * externally visible function. This makes extern inline behave as per gnu89
> + * semantics rather than c99. This prevents multiple symbol definition errors
> + * of extern inline functions at link time.
>   */
>  #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) ||		\
>      !defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
> -#define inline inline		__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
> -#define __inline__ __inline__	__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
> -#define __inline __inline	__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
> +#define inline \
> +	inline __attribute__((always_inline, unused, gnu_inline)) notrace
> +#define __inline__ inline
> +#define __inline inline
>  #else
>  /* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
> -#define inline inline		__attribute__((unused)) notrace
> -#define __inline__ __inline__	__attribute__((unused)) notrace
> -#define __inline __inline	__attribute__((unused)) notrace
> +#define inline inline		__attribute__((unused, gnu_inline)) notrace
> +#define __inline__ inline
> +#define __inline inline
>  #endif

Perhaps move these last 2 defines below the #endif
as they are common to both cases

#if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) ||               \
    !defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
#define inline inline __attribute__((always_inline, unused, gnu_inline)) notrace
#else
/* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
#define inline inline __attribute__((unused, gnu_inline)) notrace
#endif

#define __inline__	inline
#define __inline	inline
#define __always_inline	inline __attribute__((always_inline))

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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index b4bf73f5e38f..3365f20dba5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -72,17 +72,22 @@ 
  * -Wunused-function.  This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef
  * directives.  Suppress the warning in clang as well by using "unused"
  * function attribute, which is redundant but not harmful for gcc.
+ * Prefer gnu_inline, so that extern inline functions do not emit an
+ * externally visible function. This makes extern inline behave as per gnu89
+ * semantics rather than c99. This prevents multiple symbol definition errors
+ * of extern inline functions at link time.
  */
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) ||		\
     !defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
-#define inline inline		__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
-#define __inline__ __inline__	__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
-#define __inline __inline	__attribute__((always_inline,unused)) notrace
+#define inline \
+	inline __attribute__((always_inline, unused, gnu_inline)) notrace
+#define __inline__ inline
+#define __inline inline
 #else
 /* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
-#define inline inline		__attribute__((unused)) notrace
-#define __inline__ __inline__	__attribute__((unused)) notrace
-#define __inline __inline	__attribute__((unused)) notrace
+#define inline inline		__attribute__((unused, gnu_inline)) notrace
+#define __inline__ inline
+#define __inline inline
 #endif
 
 #define __always_inline	inline __attribute__((always_inline))