{slub, slob}: use unlikely() for kfree(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR) check
authorSatyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:44 +0000 (01:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:42:53 +0000 (09:42 -0700)
Considering kfree(NULL) would normally occur only in error paths and
kfree(ZERO_SIZE_PTR) is uncommon as well, so let's use unlikely() for the
condition check in SLUB's and SLOB's kfree() to optimize for the common
case.  SLAB has this already.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slob.c
mm/slub.c

index ec33fcdc852e2c72ecc95194ada98bf702d3a14a..a886e83e17efed89a8e89592915a08d8ad5db36a 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static void slob_free(void *block, int size)
        slobidx_t units;
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
                return;
        BUG_ON(!size);
 
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
 {
        struct slob_page *sp;
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
                return;
 
        sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(block);
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *block)
 {
        struct slob_page *sp;
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
                return 0;
 
        sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(block);
index edeb942dc8ae0e5ea4eb8f76f5e6504935ceb412..b7d3664fa3a9ca6d8cc5bafd6c7fc881e2d5c58e 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2449,7 +2449,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *object)
        struct page *page;
        struct kmem_cache *s;
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(object))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(object)))
                return 0;
 
        page = get_object_page(object);
@@ -2483,7 +2483,7 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
 {
        struct page *page;
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x)))
                return;
 
        page = virt_to_head_page(x);
@@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@ void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags, void *caller)
                                                        get_order(size));
        s = get_slab(size, gfpflags);
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s)))
                return s;
 
        return slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, -1, caller);
@@ -2816,7 +2816,7 @@ void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
                                                        get_order(size));
        s = get_slab(size, gfpflags);
 
-       if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s)))
                return s;
 
        return slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, caller);