Commit e20e8779 authored Jan 13, 2011 by Steven Rostedt Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 13, 2011

mm: remove unlikely() from page_mapping()

page_mapping() has a unlikely that the mapping has PAGE_MAPPING_ANON set.
But running the annotated branch profiler on a normal desktop system doing
vairous tasks (xchat, evolution, firefox, distcc), it is not really that
unlikely that the mapping here will have the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON flag set:

correct incorrect % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
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 unlikely in page_mapping() was correct a total of 1909540379 times and
incorrect 1270533123 times, with a 39% being incorrect. With this much of
an error, it's best to simply remove the unlikely and have the compiler
and branch prediction figure this out.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 088e5465

include/linux/mm.h

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static inline struct address_space page_mapping(struct page page)
		VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
		if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page)))
		mapping = &swapper_space;
		else if (unlikely((unsigned long)mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON))
		else if ((unsigned long)mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)
		mapping = NULL;
		return mapping;
		}

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