The unlikely() annotation in slab_alloc() covers too much of the expression.
It's actually very likely that the object is not NULL so use unlikely() only
for the __GFP_ZERO expression like SLAB does.
The patch reduces kernel text by 29 bytes on x86-64:
text data bss dec hex filename
24185 8560 176 32921 8099 mm/slub.o.orig
24156 8560 176 32892 807c mm/slub.o
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
}
local_irq_restore(flags);
- if (unlikely((gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO) && object))
+ if (unlikely(gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO) && object)
memset(object, 0, objsize);
kmemcheck_slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, object, c->objsize);