Re: [PATCH] Remove initialization of page_table inone_page_table_init()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jul 18 2009 - 10:13:11 EST



* Zhaolei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Only judge if (!page_table) when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
> are defined, then we don't need to set init value for page_table.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
> index 3cd7711..55da09b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
> @@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ static pmd_t * __init one_md_table_init(pgd_t *pgd)
> static pte_t * __init one_page_table_init(pmd_t *pmd)
> {
> if (!(pmd_val(*pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT)) {
> - pte_t *page_table = NULL;
> + pte_t *page_table;
>
> if (after_bootmem) {
> #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) || defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
> page_table = (pte_t *) alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
> -#endif
> if (!page_table)
> +#endif
> page_table =
> (pte_t *)alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE);

I think the original code was cleaner - putting an #ifdef straight
into the middle of a control block is quite fragile.

Ingo
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