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Use asm_inline() to instruct the compiler that the size of asm() is the minimum size of one instruction, ignoring how many instructions the compiler thinks it is. ALTERNATIVE macro that expands to several pseudo directives causes instruction length estimate to count more than 20 instructions. bloat-o-meter reports slight increase of the code size for x86_64 defconfig object file, compiled with gcc-14.2: add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 3/0 up/down: 190/-59 (131) Function old new delta __copy_user_flushcache 166 247 +81 __memcpy_flushcache 369 437 +68 arch_wb_cache_pmem 6 47 +41 __pfx_clean_cache_range 16 - -16 clean_cache_range 43 - -43 Total: Before=22807167, After=22807298, chg +0.00% The compiler now inlines and removes the clean_cache_range() function. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250313102715.333142-2-ubizjak@gmail.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.