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    mm: remove likely() from mapping_unevictable() · 088e5465
    Steven Rostedt authored
    
    
    The mapping_unevictable() has a likely() around the mapping parameter.
    This mapping parameter comes from page_mapping() which has an unlikely()
    that the page will be set as PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, and if so, it will return
    NULL.  One would think that this unlikely() means that the mapping
    returned by page_mapping() would not be NULL, but where page_mapping() is
    used just above mapping_unevictable(), that unlikely() is incorrect most
    of the time.  This means that the "likely(mapping)" in
    mapping_unevictable() is incorrect most of the time.
    
    Running the annotated branch profiler on my main box which runs firefox,
    evolution, xchat and is part of my distcc farm, I had this:
    
     correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
     ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
    12872836 1269443893  98 mapping_unevictable            pagemap.h            51
    35935762 1270265395  97 page_mapping                   mm.h                 659
    1306198001   143659   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 657
    203131478   121586   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 657
     5415491     1116   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 657
    74899487     1116   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 657
    203132845      224   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 659
     5415464       27   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 659
       13552        0   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 657
       13552        0   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 659
      242630        0   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 657
      242630        0   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 659
    74899487        0   0 page_mapping                   mm.h                 659
    
    The page_mapping() is a static inline, which is why it shows up multiple
    times.  The mapping_unevictable() is also a static inline but seems to be
    used only once in my setup.
    
    The unlikely in page_mapping() was correct a total of 1909540379 times and
    incorrect 1270533123 times, with a 39% being incorrect.  Perhaps this is
    enough to remove the unlikely from page_mapping() as well.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
    Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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