Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/nommu: drop unlikely behind BUG_ON()

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 07:04:06PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Oct 2015, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>BUG_ON() already contain an unlikely compiler flag. Drop it.
> >It is not the case if CONFIG_BUG and HAVE_ARCH_BUG_ON are not set.
> 
> Yeah, but that's like the 1% of the cases -- and those probably don't even care
> about the branch prediction (I could be wrong). So overall I like getting rid of
> explicit BUG_ON(unlikely(... calls. In fact there's a _reason_ why there are so
> few of them in the kernel.
I agree with you that this change is welcomed and I would like to see it
is accepted.

My main concern that I would expect to see it's coming after the change
of BUG_ON definition to be similar in all places, with "unlikely" in all
definitions, and not instead.

> 
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
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