[PATCH] branch profiling on my nehalem machine showed 99% incorrect branch hints:

[Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>]

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i have regenerated the patch for tip/tip ...

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   28459  7678524  99 __cache_alloc_node             slab.c               3551

Discussion on lkml [1] led to the solution to remove this hint.

[1] http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/63517/

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
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 mm/slab.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)



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diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 7dfa481..0d4b731 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3306,7 +3306,7 @@ __cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid,
 	cache_alloc_debugcheck_before(cachep, flags);
 	local_irq_save(save_flags);
 
-	if (unlikely(nodeid == -1))
+	if (nodeid == -1)
 		nodeid = numa_node_id();
 
 	if (unlikely(!cachep->nodelists[nodeid])) {


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