[Xen-devel] [PATCH] use unlikely() in BUG_ON()/WARN_ON()

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

-fno-reorder-blocks was added in c/s 1712, when x86-64 just started to
become enabled. The reason it got added is entirely unclear to me, and
it prevents the intended effect of unlikely() constructs (in particular
the ones added here) of moving out of line code which is expected to
never get executed, as well as using forward branches (which are
statically predicted taken by various processors' branch prediction
units) preferably to reach infrequently executed code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- 2009-03-27.orig/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk       2009-01-14 09:47:07.000000000 
+0100
+++ 2009-03-27/xen/arch/x86/Rules.mk    2009-03-30 14:04:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ x86_64 := n
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(TARGET_SUBARCH),x86_64)
-CFLAGS += -mno-red-zone -fpic -fno-reorder-blocks
+CFLAGS += -mno-red-zone -fpic
 CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 # -fvisibility=hidden reduces -fpic cost, if it's available
 ifneq ($(call cc-option,$(CC),-fvisibility=hidden,n),n)
--- 2009-03-27.orig/xen/include/xen/lib.h       2009-03-17 17:00:17.000000000 
+0100
+++ 2009-03-27/xen/include/xen/lib.h    2009-03-30 09:11:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 void __bug(char *file, int line) __attribute__((noreturn));
 void __warn(char *file, int line);
 
-#define BUG_ON(p)  do { if (p) BUG();  } while (0)
-#define WARN_ON(p) do { if (p) WARN(); } while (0)
+#define BUG_ON(p)  do { if (unlikely(p)) BUG();  } while (0)
+#define WARN_ON(p) do { if (unlikely(p)) WARN(); } while (0)
 
 /* Force a compilation error if condition is true */
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition) ((void)sizeof(struct { int:-!!(condition); }))




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