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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-06 16:30:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800
commit9add850c211a39d5ab1a091d48795e21599a73d0 (patch)
treecb4b6f94c69f2528ba27880c044677c09b9eecdb /include
parent54708d2858e79a2bdda10bf8a20c80eb96c20613 (diff)
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h: improve __visible documentation
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler-gcc.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 0e3110a0b771..22ab246feed3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -205,7 +205,10 @@
#if GCC_VERSION >= 40600
/*
- * Tell the optimizer that something else uses this function or variable.
+ * When used with Link Time Optimization, gcc can optimize away C functions or
+ * variables which are referenced only from assembly code. __visible tells the
+ * optimizer that something else uses this function or variable, thus preventing
+ * this.
*/
#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))
#endif