Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable

commit d9ad8bc0ca823705413f75b50c442a88cc518b35 upstream.

One of the changes between kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 is that a branch profiler
has been added for if() statements. Unfortunately this patch makes the sparse
output unusable with CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING=y: when branch profiling is
enabled, sparse prints so much false positives that the real issues are no
longer visible. This behavior can be reproduced as follows:
* enable CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING, e.g. by running make allyesconfig or
  make allmodconfig.
* run make C=2

Result: a huge number of the following sparse warnings.
...
include/linux/cpumask.h:547:2: warning: symbol '______r' shadows an earlier one
include/linux/cpumask.h:547:2: originally declared here
...

The patch below fixes this by disabling branch profiling while analyzing the
kernel code with sparse.

This patch is already included in 2.6.30-rc1 -- see also
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/5/120.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <200904051620.02311.bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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