Re: [PATCH] xfs: Remove noinline from #define STATIC

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 14:09 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:54:10PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:18:05PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > I'm not interested in making code fast if distro support engineers
> > > can't debug problems on user systems easily. Optimising for
> > > performance over debuggability is a horrible trade off for us to
> > > make because it means users and distros end up much more reliant on
> > > single points of expertise for debugging problems. And that means
> > > the majority of the load of problem triage falls directly on very
> > > limited resources - the core XFS development team. A little bit of
> > > thought about how to make code easier to triage and debug goes a
> > > long, long way....
> > 
> > So at least in my experience, if the kernels are compiled with
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and/or CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED,
> > scripts/decode_stracktrace.sh seems to do a very nice job with inlined
> 
> That doesn't help with kernel profiling and other such things that
> are based on callgraphs...

If that's really the case:

I rather suspect the xfs static v STATIC function marking is not
particularly curated and the marking is somewhat arbitrary.

So perhaps given the large number of static, but not STATIC
functions, perhaps a sed of s/static/STATIC/ should be done
when it's not inline for all xfs functions.