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Message-Id: <1410396496-13845-1-git-send-email-roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:48:16 +0800
From:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	fabf@...net.be, jkosina@...e.cz, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	richard@....at, oleg@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] signal: replace !likely with unlikely!

From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com> 

!likely() is hard to be understood, and I do not know if compiler can
optimise this condition, but unlikely(!()) is clear

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8f0876f..6156cfa 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ int send_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *q, struct task_struct *t, int group)
 	BUG_ON(!(q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC));
 
 	ret = -1;
-	if (!likely(lock_task_sighand(t, &flags)))
+	if (unlikely(!lock_task_sighand(t, &flags)))
 		goto ret;
 
 	ret = 1; /* the signal is ignored */
-- 
1.7.10.4

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