Re: [PATCH 09/12] thp: introduce khugepaged_prealloc_page andkhugepaged_alloc_page

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Thu Sep 13 2012 - 02:34:36 EST


On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > @@ -1825,6 +1825,7 @@ static bool khugepaged_prealloc_page(struct page **hpage, bool *wait)
> > return false;
> >
> > *wait = false;
> > + *hpage = NULL;
> > khugepaged_alloc_sleep();
> > } else if (*hpage) {
> > put_page(*hpage);
>
> The unshown line just below this is
>
> *hpage = NULL;
>
> I do wish you would take the "*hpage = NULL;" out of if and else blocks
> and place it once below both.

Hold on, I'm being unreasonable: that's an "else if", and I've no good
reason to request you to set *hpage = NULL when it's already NULL.
It would be okay if you did, but there's no reason for me to prefer it.

Hugh
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