Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm, hugetlb: remove redundant list_empty check in gather_surplus_pages()

Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-07-15T14:31:36Z

Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> writes:

> If list is empty, list_for_each_entry_safe() doesn't do anything.
> So, this check is redundant. Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index a838e6b..d4a1695 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1019,10 +1019,8 @@ free:
> spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
>
> /* Free unnecessary surplus pages to the buddy allocator */
> - if (!list_empty(&surplus_list)) {
> - list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
> - put_page(page);
> - }
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
> + put_page(page);
> }

You can now remove '{'

> spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5