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KVM: MMU: Add unlikely() annotations to walk_addr_generic()
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:25:50 +0000 (12:25 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 22 May 2011 12:39:46 +0000 (08:39 -0400)
commit781e0743af3c5ba356d55bc60df59f2dded1e938
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parent62aaa2f05abd59598f132e6ebad86318291b5be0commit | diff
KVM: MMU: Add unlikely() annotations to walk_addr_generic()

walk_addr_generic() is a hot path and is also hard for the cpu to predict -
some of the parameters (fetch_fault in particular) vary wildly from
invocation to invocation.

Add unlikely() annotations where appropriate; all walk failures are
considered unlikely, as are cases where we have to mark the accessed or
dirty bit, as they are slow paths both in kvm and on real processors.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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ep93xx device tree rework repo: git://git.maquefel.me/linux.git