c5105d764e
sched_clock_running is enabled early at bootup stage and never
disabled. So hint that to the compiler by using static_branch_likely()
rather than static_branch_unlikely().
The branch probability mis-annotation was introduced in the original
commit that converted the plain sched_clock_running flag to a static key:
46457ea464f5 ("sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running")
Steve further notes:
| Looks like the confusion was the moving of the "!":
|
| - if (unlikely(!sched_clock_running))
| + if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_clock_running))
|
| Where, it was unlikely that !sched_clock_running would be true, but
| because the "!" was moved outside the "unlikely()" it makes the test
| "likely()". That is, if we added an intermediate step, it would have
| been:
|
| if (!likely(sched_clock_running))
|
| which would have prevented the mistake that this patch fixes.
[ mingo: Edited the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bsegall@google.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1574843848-26825-1-git-send-email-zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.