tree a28ff85a1c35d05b9712d43a53cc879a705ba2fb
parent f37e99aca03f63aa3f2bd13ceaf769455d12c4b0
author Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1595591425 +0200
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1595591783 +0200

compiler.h: Move instrumentation_begin()/end() to new <linux/instrumentation.h> header

Linus pointed out that compiler.h - which is a key header that gets included in every
single one of the 28,000+ kernel files during a kernel build - was bloated in:

  655389666643: ("vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation")

Linus noted:

 > I have pulled this, but do we really want to add this to a header file
 > that is _so_ core that it gets included for basically every single
 > file built?
 >
 > I don't even see those instrumentation_begin/end() things used
 > anywhere right now.
 >
 > It seems excessive. That 53 lines is maybe not a lot, but it pushed
 > that header file to over 12kB, and while it's mostly comments, it's
 > extra IO and parsing basically for _every_ single file compiled in the
 > kernel.
 >
 > For what appears to be absolutely zero upside right now, and I really
 > don't see why this should be in such a core header file!

Move these primitives into a new header: <linux/instrumentation.h>, and include that
header in the headers that make use of it.

Unfortunately one of these headers is asm-generic/bug.h, which does get included
in a lot of places, similarly to compiler.h. So the de-bloating effect isn't as
good as we'd like it to be - but at least the interfaces are defined separately.

No change to functionality intended.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200604071921.GA1361070@gmail.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>