The patch titled Subject: arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is arch-arc-remove-caller-signal_pending_branch-predictions.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/arch-arc-remove-caller-signal_pending_branch-predictions.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/arch-arc-remove-caller-signal_pending_branch-predictions.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-4-dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/arch/arc/mm/fault.c~arch-arc-remove-caller-signal_pending_branch-predictions +++ a/arch/arc/mm/fault.c @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ good_area: fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags); /* If Pagefault was interrupted by SIGKILL, exit page fault "early" */ - if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(current))) { + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { if ((fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR) && !(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)) up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); if (user_mode(regs)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx are fs-epoll-remove-max_nests-argument-from-ep_call_nested.patch fs-epoll-simplify-ep_send_events_proc-ready-list-loop.patch fs-epoll-drop-ovflist-branch-prediction.patch fs-epoll-robustify-ep-mtx-held-checks.patch fs-epoll-reduce-the-scope-of-wq-lock-in-epoll_wait.patch fs-epoll-reduce-the-scope-of-wq-lock-in-epoll_wait-fix.patch fs-epoll-avoid-barrier-after-an-epoll_wait2-timeout.patch fs-epoll-avoid-barrier-after-an-epoll_wait2-timeout-fix.patch fs-epoll-rename-check_events-label-to-send_events.patch fs-epoll-deal-with-wait_queue-only-once.patch locking-mutex-remove-caller-signal_pending-branch-predictions.patch kernel-sched-remove-caller-signal_pending-branch-predictions.patch arch-arc-remove-caller-signal_pending_branch-predictions.patch mm-remove-caller-signal_pending-branch-predictions.patch fs-remove-caller-signal_pending-branch-predictions.patch