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SubjectRe: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/
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On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 00:54 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> I'd say that the general rule should
> be "don't check for NULL first unless you *know* the pointer will be NULL
> >50% of the time"...

How about running the same tests but using likely()/unlikely() for the
'1 in 50' cases?

Lee

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