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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-07-12 14:34:42 +0400
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-07-12 14:34:42 +0400
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Merge branch 'linus' into timers/urgent
Get upstream changes so we can apply fixes against them Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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@@ -389,7 +389,8 @@ Albeit deprecated by some people, the equivalent of the goto statement is
used frequently by compilers in form of the unconditional jump instruction.
The goto statement comes in handy when a function exits from multiple
-locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done.
+locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done. If there is no
+cleanup needed then just return directly.
The rationale is: