Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Jun 19 2017 - 10:17:11 EST


On 06/19/2017 03:54 PM, Hao Lee wrote:
> The variable current_order decreases from MAX_ORDER-1 to order, so the
> condition current_order <= MAX_ORDER-1 is always true.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@xxxxxxxxx>

Sounds right.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 2302f25..9120c2b 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2215,9 +2215,8 @@ __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, int start_migratetype)
> bool can_steal;
>
> /* Find the largest possible block of pages in the other list */
> - for (current_order = MAX_ORDER-1;
> - current_order >= order && current_order <= MAX_ORDER-1;
> - --current_order) {
> + for (current_order = MAX_ORDER-1; current_order >= order;
> + --current_order) {
> area = &(zone->free_area[current_order]);
> fallback_mt = find_suitable_fallback(area, current_order,
> start_migratetype, false, &can_steal);
>