fs: unconditionally use atime_needs_update() in pick_link()

Vast majority of the time the func returns false.

This avoids a branch to determine whether we are in RCU mode.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250408073641.1799151-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Author: mjguzik

fs/namei.c

@@ -1905,13 +1905,13 @@ static const char *pick_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *link,
 			unlikely(link->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ELOOP);
 
-	if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)) {
+	if (unlikely(atime_needs_update(&last->link, inode))) {
+		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
+			if (!try_to_unlazy(nd))
+				return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
+		}
 		touch_atime(&last->link);
 		cond_resched();
-	} else if (atime_needs_update(&last->link, inode)) {
-		if (!try_to_unlazy(nd))
-			return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
-		touch_atime(&last->link);
 	}
 
 	error = security_inode_follow_link(link->dentry, inode,