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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/1] cleanup: use bool as return type for rwsem_is_locked
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On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 19:56 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:53:01PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now in general, I don't particularly like such superfluous changes, so
> > > unless you can show that GCC actually generates better code, I'd prefer
> > > to keep things as they are.
> >
> > Fixed and checked the assembly. It saves us 2 bytes of code, not much. I am not sure if that is worth it :(
>
> still 2 bytes, so sure.
>
> Which gcc did you use and what arch did you build? That might be useful
> info for the changelog.

Yeah, please attach the output of 'size kernel/locking/rwsem.o' for both
before and after. I think there's similar opportunity in other locking
code as well.



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