diff --git a/scripts/profile2linkerlist.pl b/scripts/profile2linkerlist.pl
index cb4260ebdb9..6943fa7cc95 100644
--- a/scripts/profile2linkerlist.pl
+++ b/scripts/profile2linkerlist.pl
@@ -7,15 +7,13 @@
 # usage:
 #	 readprofile | sort -rn | perl profile2linkerlist.pl > functionlist
 #
+use strict;
 
 while (<>) {
   my $line = $_;
 
   $_ =~ /\W*[0-9]+\W*([a-zA-Z\_0-9]+)\W*[0-9]+/;
 
-  if ( ($line =~ /unknown/) || ($line =~ /total/)) {
-
-  } else {
-    print "*(.text.$1)\n";
-  }
+  print "*(.text.$1)\n"
+      unless ($line =~ /unknown/) || ($line =~ /total/);
 }