[slub p4 2/7] slub: Remove useless statements in __slab_alloc

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Aug 09 2011 - 17:14:32 EST


Two statements in __slab_alloc() do not have any effect.

1. c->page is already set to NULL by deactivate_slab() called right before.

2. gfpflags are masked in new_slab() before being passed to the page
allocator. There is no need to mask gfpflags in __slab_alloc in particular
since most frequent processing in __slab_alloc does not require the use of a
gfpmask.

Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/slub.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2011-08-01 11:03:15.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2011-08-01 11:04:06.385859038 -0500
@@ -2064,9 +2064,6 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_ca
c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
#endif

- /* We handle __GFP_ZERO in the caller */
- gfpflags &= ~__GFP_ZERO;
-
page = c->page;
if (!page)
goto new_slab;
@@ -2163,7 +2160,6 @@ debug:

c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object);
deactivate_slab(s, c);
- c->page = NULL;
c->node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
local_irq_restore(flags);
return object;

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