Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm: migrate: Remove redundant goto labels

From: Yang Shi
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 13:18:02 EST


On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:19 PM Baolin Wang
<baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Yang,
>
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:06 AM Baolin Wang
> > <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Remove redundant goto labels to simplify the code.
> >
> > TBH I don't see too much benefit. The "goto" makes the functions have
> > a single exit point.
>
> Yes, I agree that the 'goto' statement can make things easier when a
> function exits from multiple locations and some common work such as
> cleanup has to be done, as well as introducing complexity to reading the
> code. So per the coding style documentation, "If there is no cleanup
> needed then just return directly", which can make code more readable I
> think :)
>
> But I have no strong opinion on this, I can drop this patch if you still
> think this is unnecessary. Thanks for your review and comments.

Thanks, IMHO I'd like to drop it for now.

>
> >> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> mm/migrate.c | 8 +++-----
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> >> index 0ab364f..ed74fda 100644
> >> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> >> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> >> @@ -911,9 +911,8 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> >> */
> >> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageIsolated(page), page);
> >> if (!PageMovable(page)) {
> >> - rc = MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
> >> __ClearPageIsolated(page);
> >> - goto out;
> >> + return MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
> >> }
> >>
> >> rc = mapping->a_ops->migratepage(mapping, newpage,
> >> @@ -949,7 +948,7 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> >> flush_dcache_page(newpage);
> >>
> >> }
> >> -out:
> >> +
> >> return rc;
> >> }
> >>
> >> @@ -2095,11 +2094,10 @@ static struct page *alloc_misplaced_dst_page_thp(struct page *page,
> >> newpage = alloc_pages_node(nid, (GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_THISNODE),
> >> HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> >> if (!newpage)
> >> - goto out;
> >> + return NULL;
> >>
> >> prep_transhuge_page(newpage);
> >>
> >> -out:
> >> return newpage;
> >> }
> >>
> >> --
> >> 1.8.3.1
> >>
> >>