Hi Anshuman,

Thanks for your patch!

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 7:22 AM Anshuman Khandual
[off-list ref] wrote:

It is unlikely that an inaccessible VMA without required permission flags
will get a page fault. Hence lets just append unlikely() directive to such

Why? Isn't it the idea that you get a page fault when the page is not
accessible?

checks in order to improve performance while also standardizing it across
various platforms.

Does it make a difference to add these? Have you benchmarked this?
https://lwn.net/Articles/420019/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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