The patch titled Subject: semaphore: use unlikely() for down's timeout has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is semaphore-give-an-unlikely-for-downs-timeout.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: liguang <lig.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: semaphore: use unlikely() for down's timeout Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/semaphore.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/semaphore.c~semaphore-give-an-unlikely-for-downs-timeout kernel/semaphore.c --- a/kernel/semaphore.c~semaphore-give-an-unlikely-for-downs-timeout +++ a/kernel/semaphore.c @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static inline int __sched __down_common( for (;;) { if (signal_pending_state(state, task)) goto interrupted; - if (timeout <= 0) + if (unlikely(timeout <= 0)) goto timed_out; __set_task_state(task, state); raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->lock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lig.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are semaphore-give-an-unlikely-for-downs-timeout.patch semaphore-boolize-semaphore_waiters-up.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html