Commit f67f8d4a authored by Steven Rostedt (Google)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (Google) Committed by Andrew Morton

mm/rmap: fix misplaced parenthesis of a likely()

Running my yearly branch profiler to see where likely/unlikely annotation
may be added or removed, I discovered this:

correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
       0   457918 100 page_try_dup_anon_rmap         rmap.h               264
[..]
  458021        0   0 page_try_dup_anon_rmap         rmap.h               265

I thought it was interesting that line 264 of rmap.h had a 100% incorrect
annotation, but the line directly below it was 100% correct. Looking at the
code:

	if (likely(!is_device_private_page(page) &&
	    unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, page))))

It didn't make sense. The "likely()" was around the entire if statement
(not just the "!is_device_private_page(page)"), which also included the
"unlikely()" portion of that if condition.

If the unlikely portion is unlikely to be true, that would make the entire
if condition unlikely to be true, so it made no sense at all to say the
entire if condition is true.

What is more likely to be likely is just the first part of the if statement
before the && operation. It's likely to be a misplaced parenthesis. And
after making the if condition broken into a likely() && unlikely(), both
now appear to be correct!

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231201145936.5ddfdb50@gandalf.local.home
Fixes:fb3d824d ("mm/rmap: split page_dup_rmap() into page_dup_file_rmap() and page_try_dup_anon_rmap()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent ec056cef
......@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ static inline int page_try_dup_anon_rmap(struct page *page, bool compound,
* guarantee the pinned page won't be randomly replaced in the
* future on write faults.
*/
if (likely(!is_device_private_page(page) &&
unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, page))))
if (likely(!is_device_private_page(page)) &&
unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, page)))
return -EBUSY;
ClearPageAnonExclusive(page);
......
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