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Zhenzhong Duan authored
sched_clock_running is enabled early at bootup stage and never disabled. So hint that to the compiler by using static_branch_likely() rather than static_branch_unlikely(). The branch probability mis-annotation was introduced in the original commit that converted the plain sched_clock_running flag to a static key: 46457ea4 ("sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running") Steve further notes: | Looks like the confusion was the moving of the "!": | | - if (unlikely(!sched_clock_running)) | + if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_clock_running)) | | Where, it was unlikely that !sched_clock_running would be true, but | because the "!" was moved outside the "unlikely()" it makes the test | "likely()". That is, if we added an intermediate step, it would have | been: | | if (!likely(sched_clock_running)) | | which would have prevented the mistake that this patch fixes. [ mingo: Edited the changelog. ] Signed-off-by:
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1574843848-26825-1-git-send-email-zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
c5105d76Zhenzhong Duan authoredsched_clock_running is enabled early at bootup stage and never disabled. So hint that to the compiler by using static_branch_likely() rather than static_branch_unlikely(). The branch probability mis-annotation was introduced in the original commit that converted the plain sched_clock_running flag to a static key: 46457ea4 ("sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running") Steve further notes: | Looks like the confusion was the moving of the "!": | | - if (unlikely(!sched_clock_running)) | + if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_clock_running)) | | Where, it was unlikely that !sched_clock_running would be true, but | because the "!" was moved outside the "unlikely()" it makes the test | "likely()". That is, if we added an intermediate step, it would have | been: | | if (!likely(sched_clock_running)) | | which would have prevented the mistake that this patch fixes. [ mingo: Edited the changelog. ] Signed-off-by:
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1574843848-26825-1-git-send-email-zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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