The patch titled Subject: fs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() condition has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-condition.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-condition.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-condition.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: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() condition "unlikely(WARN_ON(x))" is excessive. WARN_ON() already uses unlikely() internally. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190829165025.15750-5-efremov@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/open.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/open.c~fs-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-condition +++ a/fs/open.c @@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f f->f_mode |= FMODE_ATOMIC_POS; f->f_op = fops_get(inode->i_fop); - if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!f->f_op))) { + if (WARN_ON(!f->f_op)) { error = -ENODEV; goto cleanup_all; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from efremov@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-check-for-nested-unlikely-calls.patch drm-msm-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-conditions.patch net-mlx5e-remove-unlikely-from-warn-condition.patch xen-events-remove-unlikely-from-warn-condition.patch fs-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-condition.patch wimax-i2400m-remove-unlikely-from-warn-condition.patch xfs-remove-unlikely-from-warn_on-condition.patch ib-hfi1-remove-unlikely-from-is_err-condition.patch udp-remove-unlikely-from-is_err-condition.patch ntfs-remove-unlikely-from-is_err-conditions.patch