Re: [PATCH v16 07/22] mm/thp: remove code path which never got into

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 08:58:41AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> split_huge_page() will never call on a page which isn't on lru list, so
> this code never got a chance to run, and should not be run, to add tail
> pages on a lru list which head page isn't there.
> 
> Although the bug was never triggered, it'better be removed for code
> correctness.
> 
> BTW, it looks better to have BUG() or soem warning set in the wrong

s/soem/some/

> path, but the path will be changed in incomming new page isolation
> func. So just save it here.

Yeah, WARN() would be great. Otherwise I'm okay with the patch

Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov