From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
        jamborm@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force inlining of some byteswap operations)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:07:51 +0200
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On Monday 18 April 2016 08:39:32 Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> I agree.  So how should we work around the bug in this case?  There have
> been several suggestions:
> 
> - change wwn_to_u64() to __always_inline
> 
> - change qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name() to skip the unnecessary call to
>   wwn_to_u64()
> 
> - revert one of the two commits:
>   bc27fb68aaad ("include/uapi/linux/byteorder, swab: force inlining of some byteswap operations")
>   ef3fb2422ffe ("scsi: fc: use get/put_unaligned64 for wwn access")

What about the patch to change get_unaligned_be64() that I posted?

I think we want to merge that anyway, I just don't know if that helps
with this particular problem as well.

	Arnd