[PATCH] likely cleanup: remove unlikely in sys_mprotect()

With likely/unlikely profiling on my not-so-busy-typical-developmentsystem
there are 5k misses vs 2k hits.  So I guess we should remove the unlikely.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 4c14d42..5faf01a 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -205,8 +205,7 @@ sys_mprotect(unsigned long start, size_t len, unsigned long prot)
        /*
         * Does the application expect PROT_READ to imply PROT_EXEC:
         */
-       if (unlikely((prot & PROT_READ) &&
-                       (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC)))
+       if ((prot & PROT_READ) && (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC))
                prot |= PROT_EXEC;
 
        vm_flags = calc_vm_prot_bits(prot);