linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for 2.6.23] [2/3] x86_64: Prevent doing anything from cache_remove

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Date:	13 Sep 2007 11:32:46 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Cc:	ashok.raj@...el.com, akinobu.mita@...il.com, torvalds@...l.org,
	patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbeulich@...ell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.6.23] [2/3] x86_64: Prevent doing anything from cache_remove_dev() when info setup failed.

Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes:

> AK: Removed the unlikelies because gcc heuristics default to unlikely for tes
> AK: == NULL and for negative returns.

This patch was actually from Jan Beulich, but somehow the attribution
got dropped. Sorry for that.

-Andi
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