linux-stable/include/linux/file.h
Steven Rostedt c2b3e74b78 fs: Remove unlikely() from fput_light()
In fput_light(), there's an unlikely(fput_needed), which running on
my normal desktop doing firefox, xchat, evolution and part of my distcc farm,
and running the annotate branch profiler shows that the unlikely is not
very unlikely.

 correct incorrect  %        Function             File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------             ----              ----
       0       48 100 fput_light                file.h               26
115828710 897415279  88 fput_light              file.h               26
865271179 5286128445  85 fput_light             file.h               26
19568539  8923664  31 fput_light                file.h               26
12353677  3562279  22 fput_light                file.h               26
  267691    67062  20 fput_light                file.h               26
15014853   348172   2 fput_light                file.h               26
  209258      205   0 fput_light                file.h               26
 1364164        0   0 fput_light                file.h               26

Which gives 1032903812 times it was correct and 6203351846 times it was
incorrect, or 85% incorrect.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-17 03:26:26 -05:00

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/*
* Wrapper functions for accessing the file_struct fd array.
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_FILE_H
#define __LINUX_FILE_H
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/posix_types.h>
struct file;
extern void fput(struct file *);
extern void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file);
struct file_operations;
struct vfsmount;
struct dentry;
struct path;
extern struct file *alloc_file(struct path *, fmode_t mode,
const struct file_operations *fop);
static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed)
{
if (fput_needed)
fput(file);
}
extern struct file *fget(unsigned int fd);
extern struct file *fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed);
extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag);
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int alloc_fd(unsigned start, unsigned flags);
extern int get_unused_fd(void);
#define get_unused_fd_flags(flags) alloc_fd(0, (flags))
extern void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd);
extern void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file);
#endif /* __LINUX_FILE_H */