[Patch v2] mm/page_reporting: drop stale list head check in page_reporting_cycle

From: Wei Yang
Date: Tue Aug 18 2020 - 04:44:57 EST


list_for_each_entry_safe() guarantees that we will never stumble over
the list head; "&page->lru != list" will always evaluate to true. Let's
simplify.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_reporting.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_reporting.c b/mm/page_reporting.c
index 3bbd471cfc81..aaaa3605123d 100644
--- a/mm/page_reporting.c
+++ b/mm/page_reporting.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ page_reporting_cycle(struct page_reporting_dev_info *prdev, struct zone *zone,
* the new head of the free list before we release the
* zone lock.
*/
- if (&page->lru != list && !list_is_first(&page->lru, list))
+ if (!list_is_first(&page->lru, list))
list_rotate_to_front(&page->lru, list);

/* release lock before waiting on report processing */
--
2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)