SLUB: Fix __GFP_ZERO unlikely() annotation
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>
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