[PATCH 1/3] spi: added spi_resource management

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 01:04:52PM +0000, kernel at martin.sperl.org wrote:

> +static struct spi_res *__spi_res_alloc(struct spi_device *spi,
> +				       spi_res_release_t release,
> +				       size_t size,
> +				       gfp_t gfp)

This has exactly one (tiny) user.  Why is it a separate function?

> +	sres = kzalloc(tot_size, gfp);
> +	if (unlikely(!sres))
> +		return NULL;

Don't use likely() or unlikely() annotations unless the code is *really*
performance critical, just let the optimiser get on with things.  The
annotations most likely cost more time in reading the code than they'll
ever save.
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