Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Remove a superfluous check

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 13:23:58 EST


On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 19:17 +0200, John Kacur wrote:
>

> It looks okay to me. Technically it's not functionally equivalent though,
> because now when __register_ftrace_function is called directly, (in other
> paths), the test has an unlikely there. See what Steven says, otherwise,
> you can have my reviewed by.

Unlikely()s shouldn't affect things functionally, its just an
optimization hint.

Also, this check is unlikely to be true, so the hint is valid here.

-- Steve


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