From: Arjan van de Ven Mark a few VFS functions as mandatory inline (based on Al Viro's request); these must be inline due to stack usage issues during a recursive loop that happens during the recursive symlink resolution (symlink to a symlink to a symlink ..) This patch at this point does not change behavior and is for documentation purposes only (but this changes later in the series) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/namei.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~mark-some-key-vfs-functions-as-__always_inline fs/namei.c --- devel/fs/namei.c~mark-some-key-vfs-functions-as-__always_inline 2006-01-06 22:36:52.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/fs/namei.c 2006-01-06 22:36:52.000000000 -0800 @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static struct dentry * real_lookup(struc static int __emul_lookup_dentry(const char *, struct nameidata *); /* SMP-safe */ -static inline int +static __always_inline int walk_init_root(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) { read_lock(¤t->fs->lock); @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ walk_init_root(const char *name, struct return 1; } -static inline int __vfs_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd, const char *link) +static __always_inline int __vfs_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd, const char *link) { int res = 0; char *name; @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ struct path { struct dentry *dentry; }; -static inline int __do_follow_link(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) +static __always_inline int __do_follow_link(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) { int error; void *cookie; @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ int follow_down(struct vfsmount **mnt, s return 0; } -static inline void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd) +static __always_inline void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd) { while(1) { struct vfsmount *parent; _