Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] cleanup: use bool as return type for rwsem_is_locked

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jun 06 2014 - 13:57:05 EST


On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:53:01PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Now in general, I don't particularly like such superfluous changes, so
> > unless you can show that GCC actually generates better code, I'd prefer
> > to keep things as they are.
>
> Fixed and checked the assembly. It saves us 2 bytes of code, not much. I am not sure if that is worth it :(

still 2 bytes, so sure.

Which gcc did you use and what arch did you build? That might be useful
info for the changelog.
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