Re: [RFC][PATCH] signal: replace !likely with unlikely!

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 13.09.2014 04:48, schrieb Li RongQing:
> I did not test, how to test it?

Compare the object files of both variants to find out whether both create
semantically equivalent code and whether the un/likely have an effect.
i.e. objdump -S -d kernel/signal.o
I guess you can just remove the likely as gcc is smart enough to detect the "goto ret;"
as an unlikely taken branch.

Thanks,
//richard
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