Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: fix hang problem after bio_alloc() failed

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Jun 21 2009 - 07:08:55 EST


Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
> index 22c7f65..e8f188b 100644
> --- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
> +++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
> @@ -1846,26 +1846,13 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_write(struct nilfs_sc_info *sci,
> err = nilfs_segbuf_write(segbuf, &wi);
>
> res = nilfs_segbuf_wait(segbuf, &wi);
> - err = unlikely(err) ? : res;
> + err = unlikely(err) ? err : res;

It's very dubious gcc does anything with unlikely here anyways.
They typically only work directly in conditions being tested.

> if (unlikely(err))
> return err;

Also gcc generally considers conditions to blocks that
return unlikely, so it's actually superfluous.

-Andi
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