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mm: Uninline copy_overflow()
While building a small config with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMISE_FOR_SIZE,
I ended up with more than 50 times the following function in vmlinux
because GCC doesn't honor the 'inline' keyword:

	c00243bc <copy_overflow>:
	c00243bc:	94 21 ff f0 	stwu    r1,-16(r1)
	c00243c0:	7c 85 23 78 	mr      r5,r4
	c00243c4:	7c 64 1b 78 	mr      r4,r3
	c00243c8:	3c 60 c0 62 	lis     r3,-16286
	c00243cc:	7c 08 02 a6 	mflr    r0
	c00243d0:	38 63 5e e5 	addi    r3,r3,24293
	c00243d4:	90 01 00 14 	stw     r0,20(r1)
	c00243d8:	4b ff 82 45 	bl      c001c61c <__warn_printk>
	c00243dc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0
	c00243e0:	80 01 00 14 	lwz     r0,20(r1)
	c00243e4:	38 21 00 10 	addi    r1,r1,16
	c00243e8:	7c 08 03 a6 	mtlr    r0
	c00243ec:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

With -Winline, GCC tells:

	/include/linux/thread_info.h:212:20: warning: inlining failed in call to 'copy_overflow': call is unlikely and code size would grow [-Winline]

copy_overflow() is a non conditional warning called by
check_copy_size() on an error path.

check_copy_size() have to remain inlined in order to benefit
from constant folding, but copy_overflow() is not worth inlining.

Uninline it when CONFIG_BUG is selected.

When CONFIG_BUG is not selected, WARN() does nothing so skip it.

This reduces the size of vmlinux by almost 4kbytes.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
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chleroy authored and intel-lab-lkp committed Feb 12, 2022
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@@ -209,9 +209,12 @@ __bad_copy_from(void);
extern void __compiletime_error("copy destination size is too small")
__bad_copy_to(void);

void __copy_overflow(int size, unsigned long count);

static inline void copy_overflow(int size, unsigned long count)
{
WARN(1, "Buffer overflow detected (%d < %lu)!\n", size, count);
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUG))
__copy_overflow(size, count);
}

static __always_inline __must_check bool
@@ -335,3 +335,9 @@ long strnlen_user_nofault(const void __user *unsafe_addr, long count)

return ret;
}

void __copy_overflow(int size, unsigned long count)
{
WARN(1, "Buffer overflow detected (%d < %lu)!\n", size, count);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__copy_overflow);

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