[RFC][PATCH] tree-wide: Remove __inline__ and __inline usage

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Nov 06 2018 - 05:02:49 EST


Hi Linus,

A proposed GCC asm extention:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-10/msg01931.html

allows adding the "inline" keyword to 'asm ("")' statements. The
problem is that we're possibly redefining "inline" to
"inline __attribute__((__always_inline__))" which makes the proposed:

asm volatile inline ("")

not compile.

However, since we've been depricating the use of the alternative
inline keywords: "__inline__" and "__inline", and there are only a
'few' uses left of them in the tree:

$ git grep -e "\<__inline__\>" | wc -l
487
$ git grep -e "\<__inline\>" | wc -l
56
$ git grep -e "\<inline\>" | wc -l
69957

let's finish them off now.

Therefore I'm proposing to run:

git grep -l "\<__inline\(\|__\)\>" | while read file
do
sed -i -e 's/\<__inline\(\|__\)\>/inline/g' $file
done

On your current tree, and apply the below fixup patch on top of that
result.

This would then allow us to do something like (+- GCC feature tests):

#define asm_volatile(stmt...) asm volatile __inline__(stmt)

once that GCC patch lands.

Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler_types.h | 3 ---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 ++++++------
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c | 2 --
scripts/kernel-doc | 2 --
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -202,9 +202,6 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
__maybe_unused notrace
#endif

-#define inline inline
-#define inline inline
-
/*
* Rather then using noinline to prevent stack consumption, use
* noinline_for_stack instead. For documentation reasons.
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ our $Attribute = qr{
__weak
}x;
our $Modifier;
-our $Inline = qr{inline|__always_inline|noinline|inline|inline};
+our $Inline = qr{inline|__always_inline|noinline};
our $Member = qr{->$Ident|\.$Ident|\[[^]]*\]};
our $Lval = qr{$Ident(?:$Member)*};

@@ -5771,13 +5771,13 @@ sub process {
"inline keyword should sit between storage class and type\n" . $herecurr);
}

-# Check for inline and inline, prefer inline
+# Check for __inline__ and __inline, prefer inline
if ($realfile !~ m@\binclude/uapi/@ &&
- $line =~ /\b(inline|inline)\b/) {
- if (WARN("INLINE",
- "plain inline is preferred over $1\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $line =~ /\b(__inline__|__inline)\b/) {
+ if (ERROR("INLINE",
+ "plain inline is preferred over $1\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
- $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\b(inline|inline)\b/inline/;
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\b(__inline__|__inline)\b/inline/;

}
}
--- a/scripts/genksyms/keywords.c
+++ b/scripts/genksyms/keywords.c
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ static struct resword {
{ "__const", CONST_KEYW },
{ "__const__", CONST_KEYW },
{ "__extension__", EXTENSION_KEYW },
- { "inline", INLINE_KEYW },
- { "inline", INLINE_KEYW },
{ "__signed", SIGNED_KEYW },
{ "__signed__", SIGNED_KEYW },
{ "__typeof", TYPEOF_KEYW },
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1569,8 +1569,6 @@ sub dump_function($$) {
$prototype =~ s/^extern +//;
$prototype =~ s/^asmlinkage +//;
$prototype =~ s/^inline +//;
- $prototype =~ s/^inline +//;
- $prototype =~ s/^inline +//;
$prototype =~ s/^__always_inline +//;
$prototype =~ s/^noinline +//;
$prototype =~ s/__init +//;