Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:34:23 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] trivial: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
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On 31-07-15, 13:23, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:41:09AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 07/31/2015 10:38 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >This cleans up the usage of IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)(), where the callers have
> > >added additional unlikely compiler flag to them. It also fixes the
> > >definition of IS_ERR_OR_NULL(), to use unlikely for all checks it does.
> > 
> > [+CC Steven Rostedt]
> > 
> > Any idea what the compiler does in the case of
> > "if (likely(IS_ERR(...)))"? There are apparently such cases in the source.
> 
> We have two cases in code:
> 
> drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c:       if (likely(IS_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev)))

This one is already fixed in my series (sent a v2 to fix changelog as well)

> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c:     if (likely(IS_ERR(shadow) && PTR_ERR(shadow) == -ENOENT)) {

And I have sent a patch for this (in reply the your mail).

-- 
viresh
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