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Commit 5093c587 authored by Anshuman Khandual's avatar Anshuman Khandual Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/vma: append unlikely() while testing VMA access permissions



It is unlikely that an inaccessible VMA without required permission flags
will get a page fault.  Hence lets just append unlikely() directive to
such checks in order to improve performance while also standardizing it
across various platforms.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1582525304-32113-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a0137f16
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