[PATCH] likely cleanup: remove unlikely in sys_mprotect()

[Hua Zhong]

With likely/unlikely profiling (see the recent patch dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx sent), on my not-so-busy-typical-developmentsystem there are 5k misses vs 2k hits. So I guess we should remove the unlikely.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 4c14d42..5faf01a 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -205,8 +205,7 @@ sys_mprotect(unsigned long start, size_t
 	/*
 	 * Does the application expect PROT_READ to imply PROT_EXEC:
 	 */
-	if (unlikely((prot & PROT_READ) &&
-			(current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC)))
+	if ((prot & PROT_READ) && (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC))
 		prot |= PROT_EXEC;

 	vm_flags = calc_vm_prot_bits(prot);
-
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