From e8ec04938c446e5f4dc53e0147f0f679995012ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:41:32 -0700 Subject: lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c: document deliberate use of `&' This operation was intentional, but tools such as smatch will warn that it might not have been. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Yann Collet Cc: Vasily Averin Cc: Gao Xiang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3bf931c6ea0cae3e23f3485801986859851b4f04.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/lz4') diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c index 0c9d3ad17e0f..5371dab6b481 100644 --- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c +++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c @@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ static FORCE_INLINE int LZ4_decompress_generic( * space in the output for those 18 bytes earlier, upon * entering the shortcut (in other words, there is a * combined check for both stages). + * + * The & in the likely() below is intentionally not && so that + * some compilers can produce better parallelized runtime code */ if ((endOnInput ? length != RUN_MASK : length <= 8) /* -- cgit v1.2.3