add noinline_for_stack
People are adding `noinline' in various places to prevent excess stack
consumption due to gcc inlining. But once this is done, it is quite unobvious
why the `noinline' is present in the code. We can comment each and every
site, or we can use noinline_for_stack.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index d0e17e1..dcae0c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -138,6 +138,12 @@
#define noinline
#endif
+/*
+ * Rather then using noinline to prevent stack consumption, use
+ * noinline_for_stack instead. For documentaiton reasons.
+ */
+#define noinline_for_stack noinline
+
#ifndef __always_inline
#define __always_inline inline
#endif