-/* Never include this file directly. Include <linux/compiler.h> instead. */
+#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
+#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc4.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
+#endif
/* These definitions are for GCC v4.x. */
#include <linux/compiler-gcc.h>
* code
*/
#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
+
+#if !(__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3)
+/* Mark functions as cold. gcc will assume any path leading to a call
+ to them will be unlikely. This means a lot of manual unlikely()s
+ are unnecessary now for any paths leading to the usual suspects
+ like BUG(), printk(), panic() etc. [but let's keep them for now for
+ older compilers]
+
+ Early snapshots of gcc 4.3 don't support this and we can't detect this
+ in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're unreleased.
+ Maketime probing would be overkill here.
+
+ gcc also has a __attribute__((__hot__)) to move hot functions into
+ a special section, but I don't see any sense in this right now in
+ the kernel context */
+#define __cold __attribute__((__cold__))
+
+#endif