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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index a03e9398a6c2..14f7494280f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -23,3 +23,21 @@
* 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