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mm: remove likely() from grab_cache_page_write_begin()
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Running the annotated branch profiler on a box doing average work
(firefox, evolution, xchat, distcc farm), the likely() used in
grab_cache_page_write_begin() was incorrect most of the time:

 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
 1924262 71332401  97 grab_cache_page_write_begin    filemap.c           2206

Adding a trace_printk() and running the function tracer limited to
just this function I can see:

        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268935: grab_cache_page_write_begin: page=          (null) mapping=ffff8800676a9460 index=7
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268946: grab_cache_page_write_begin <-ext3_write_begin
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268947: grab_cache_page_write_begin: page=          (null) mapping=ffff8800676a9460 index=8
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268959: grab_cache_page_write_begin <-ext3_write_begin
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268960: grab_cache_page_write_begin: page=          (null) mapping=ffff8800676a9460 index=9
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268972: grab_cache_page_write_begin <-ext3_write_begin
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268973: grab_cache_page_write_begin: page=          (null) mapping=ffff8800676a9460 index=10
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268991: grab_cache_page_write_begin <-ext3_write_begin
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.268992: grab_cache_page_write_begin: page=          (null) mapping=ffff8800676a9460 index=11
        gconfd-2-2696  [000]  4467.269005: grab_cache_page_write_begin <-ext3_write_begin

Which shows that a lot of calls from ext3_write_begin will result in the
page returned by "find_lock_page" will be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Steven Rostedt authored and torvalds committed Jan 14, 2011
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion mm/filemap.c
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Expand Up @@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS;
repeat:
page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
if (likely(page))
if (page)
return page;

page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
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