Re: [PATCH] slab: Remove unnecessary __builtin_constant_p()

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> The patch made index_of() weaker!
>
> It's probably all a bit academic, given that linux-next does
>
> -/*
> - * This function must be completely optimized away if a constant is passed to
> - * it.  Mostly the same as what is in linux/slab.h except it returns an index.
> - */
> -static __always_inline int index_of(const size_t size)
> -{
> -       extern void __bad_size(void);
> -
> -       if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
> -               int i = 0;
> -
> -#define CACHE(x) \
> -       if (size <=x) \
> -               return i; \
> -       else \
> -               i++;
> -#include <linux/kmalloc_sizes.h>
> -#undef CACHE
> -               __bad_size();
> -       } else
> -               __bad_size();
> -       return 0;
> -}
> -

Yup, Christoph nuked it in the following commit:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git/commit/?h=slab/next&id=2c59dd6544212faa5ce761920d2251f4152f408d

                        Pekka

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