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Steven Rostedt (Google) f67f8d4a8c mm/rmap: fix misplaced parenthesis of a likely()
Running my yearly branch profiler to see where likely/unlikely annotation
may be added or removed, I discovered this:

correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
       0   457918 100 page_try_dup_anon_rmap         rmap.h               264
[..]
  458021        0   0 page_try_dup_anon_rmap         rmap.h               265

I thought it was interesting that line 264 of rmap.h had a 100% incorrect
annotation, but the line directly below it was 100% correct. Looking at the
code:

	if (likely(!is_device_private_page(page) &&
	    unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, page))))

It didn't make sense. The "likely()" was around the entire if statement
(not just the "!is_device_private_page(page)"), which also included the
"unlikely()" portion of that if condition.

If the unlikely portion is unlikely to be true, that would make the entire
if condition unlikely to be true, so it made no sense at all to say the
entire if condition is true.

What is more likely to be likely is just the first part of the if statement
before the && operation. It's likely to be a misplaced parenthesis. And
after making the if condition broken into a likely() && unlikely(), both
now appear to be correct!

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231201145936.5ddfdb50@gandalf.local.home
Fixes:fb3d824d1a46c ("mm/rmap: split page_dup_rmap() into page_dup_file_rmap() and page_try_dup_anon_rmap()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-12 10:57:06 -08:00
arch NUMA: optimize detection of memory with no node id assigned by firmware 2023-12-10 16:51:34 -08:00
block fs: convert error_remove_page to error_remove_folio 2023-12-10 16:51:42 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document for quota goals 2023-12-12 10:57:05 -08:00
drivers list_lru: allow explicit memcg and NUMA node selection 2023-12-12 10:57:01 -08:00
fs list_lru: allow explicit memcg and NUMA node selection 2023-12-12 10:57:01 -08:00
include mm/rmap: fix misplaced parenthesis of a likely() 2023-12-12 10:57:06 -08:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring io_uring: use fget/fput consistently 2023-11-28 11:56:29 -07:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap() 2023-12-10 16:51:34 -08:00
lib maple_tree: simplify mas_leaf_set_meta() 2023-12-12 10:57:01 -08:00
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mm mm/readahead: do not allow order-1 folio 2023-12-12 10:57:06 -08:00
net wireless fixes: 2023-11-29 19:43:34 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples samples/cgroup: introduce memcg memory.events listener 2023-12-10 16:51:54 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable 2023-12-06 17:03:50 -08:00
security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
sound ALSA: hda: Disable power-save on KONTRON SinglePC 2023-11-30 16:14:21 +01:00
tools selftests/damon: test quota goals directory 2023-12-12 10:57:04 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: add a new address mapping for Chester Lin 2023-12-06 16:12:45 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: drop Antti Palosaari 2023-12-06 16:12:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS samples: introduce new samples subdir for cgroup 2023-12-10 16:51:54 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc4 2023-12-03 18:52:56 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.