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Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)

From Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
Date 2015-08-01 13:50 +0200
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On Saturday 01 August 2015 13:22:51 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 31-07-15, 09:58, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 02:08:25PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) already contain an 'unlikely' compiler flag and
> > > there is no need to do that again from its callers. Drop it.
> > 
> > I'd rather keep it as it documents the expected behavior and double
> > unlikely should work just fine.
> 
> TBH, I don't really agree that it is there for documentation. The
> only purpose of such compiler flags is to try make code more
> efficient.
> 
> Anyway, I got to this series as someone asked me to fix this for one
> of my patches which used unlikely(IS_ERR_OR_NULL()). And so I
> thought about fixing all sites that are doing double unlikely (that
> shouldn't hurt for sure).
> 
> I will leave it to you.

I think that unlikely() macro here make code more readable. Yes, it is 
also for compiler optimization, but also for me it looks like Clean Code 
pattern <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Code> -- is not it?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before  IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2015-07-31 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before  IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-08-01 13:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-08-01 13:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-08-02 18:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/15] drivers: input: Drop unlikely before  IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2015-08-02 17:50 +0200

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