Remove char* assignments and add branching hint and
also constify the parameters.

This results in a 35 bytes shorter fast path, so author
boldly assumes it helps without doing in-depth assembly
analysis.

v2: use WARN's branching (Chris), commit name (Joonas)

Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1450189512-30360-5-git-send-email-mika.kuoppala@intel.com