From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove unlikly NULL from kfree
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:15:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326091511.a4e88b2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090326161019.GT28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:10:19 +0000 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> We certainly can add explicit check, but that'll keep asking for
> patches "removing useless check". The same applies to other places,
> really.
Such patches are easily prevented by commenting the exceptional cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 5:19 [PATCH 0/5] [PATCH][GIT PULL] remove unnecessary (un)likelys Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 5:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] ptrace: remove incorrect unlikelys Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 7:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 13:31 ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-03-25 13:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 9:28 ` Roland McGrath
2009-03-25 5:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove unlikly NULL from kfree Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 7:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-25 7:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-25 8:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-25 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-25 8:02 ` Hua Zhong
2009-03-25 8:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-25 13:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-25 14:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 14:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-25 15:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 15:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 16:14 ` Matt Mackall
2009-03-25 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 20:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-25 21:09 ` Matt Mackall
2009-03-25 21:01 ` Matt Mackall
2009-03-25 21:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 15:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-26 16:10 ` Al Viro
2009-03-26 16:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-25 5:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] sched: remove unlikely in pre_schedule_rt Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 5:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 5:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] sched: remove unlikelys from sched_move_task Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25 5:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: remove unlikelys for unlock in rmap.c Steven Rostedt
2009-04-24 11:12 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-24 12:15 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-03-25 7:19 ` [PATCH 0/5] [PATCH][GIT PULL] remove unnecessary (un)likelys Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 7:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 13:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-27 16:30 ` Daniel Walker
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