Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Remove a superfluous check

From: John Kacur
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 13:04:27 EST




On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
>
> register_ftrace_function() checks ftrace_disabled and calls
> __register_ftrace_function which does it again.
>
> Drop the first check and add the unlikely hint to the second one.
>
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 867bd1dd2dd0..f9212017406d 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int remove_ftrace_list_ops(struct ftrace_ops **list,
>
> static int __register_ftrace_function(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
> {
> - if (ftrace_disabled)
> + if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> if (FTRACE_WARN_ON(ops == &global_ops))
> @@ -4304,14 +4304,10 @@ int register_ftrace_function(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>
> mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
>
> - if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))
> - goto out_unlock;
> -
> ret = __register_ftrace_function(ops);
> if (!ret)
> ret = ftrace_startup(ops, 0);
>
> -
> out_unlock:
> mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);
> return ret;
> --

If you're going to do this, then you can drop the label too.

Thanks
John Kacur
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