From: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]> 1. we already expect the refcount is 1. 2. path creation predicts name == iname
I verified this straightens out the asm, no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]> --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 37b13339f046..8530d75fb270 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ void putname(struct filename *name) return; refcnt = atomic_read(&name->refcnt); - if (refcnt != 1) { + if (unlikely(refcnt != 1)) { if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!refcnt)) return; -- 2.47.3
