Re: [PATCH] jump_label: Do not profile branch annotations

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Dec 14 2020 - 03:54:03 EST


On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:37:54PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> While running my branch profiler that checks for incorrect "likely" and
> "unlikely"s around the kernel, there's a large number of them that are
> incorrect due to being "static_branches".
>
> As static_branches are rather special, as they are likely or unlikely for
> other reasons than normal annotations are used for, there's no reason to
> have them be profiled.
>
> Expose the "unlikely_notrace" and "likely_notrace" so that the
> static_branch can use them, and have them be ignored by the branch
> profilers.

The less that abomination does the better ;-), I'll take it through tip
then?