Christian Brauner c4044870ae Merge patch series "two nits for path lookup"
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> says:

Since path looku is being looked at, two extra nits from me:

1. some trivial jump avoidance in inode_permission()

2. but more importantly avoiding a memory access which is most likely a
cache miss when descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

the file seems to have no maintainer fwiw

anyhow I'm confident the way forward is to add IOP_FAST_MAY_EXEC (or
similar) to elide inode_permission() in the common case to begin with.
There are quite a few branches which straight up don't need execute.
On top of that btrfs has a permission hook only to check for MAY_WRITE,
which in case of path lookup is not set. With the above flag the call
will be avoided.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250416221626.2710239-1-mjguzik@gmail.com:
  device_cgroup: avoid access to ->i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250416221626.2710239-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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