It decreases code size by 16 bytes on my gcc 4.4.1 on Core 2:
  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  4314    2216       8    6538    198a kernel/pid.o-BEFORE
  4298    2216       8    6522    197a kernel/pid.o-AFTER
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>