From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/swap_slots.c: Remove unnecessary NULL pointer check
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:40:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210109174016.GA35215@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210109080943.34832-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 03:09:43AM -0500, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> The cache->slots and cache->slots_ret is already checked before we try to
> drain it. And kvfree can handle the NULL pointer itself. So remove the
> NULL pointer check here.
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static void drain_slots_cache_cpu(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int type,
> swapcache_free_entries(cache->slots + cache->cur, cache->nr);
> cache->cur = 0;
> cache->nr = 0;
> - if (free_slots && cache->slots) {
> + if (free_slots) {
Prove that swapcache_free_entries() doesn't change cache->slots.
> @@ -188,13 +188,12 @@ static void drain_slots_cache_cpu(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int type,
> spin_lock_irq(&cache->free_lock);
> swapcache_free_entries(cache->slots_ret, cache->n_ret);
> cache->n_ret = 0;
> - if (free_slots && cache->slots_ret) {
> + if (free_slots) {
... or ->slots_ret
> - if (slots)
> - kvfree(slots);
> + kvfree(slots);
This is fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-09 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-09 8:09 Miaohe Lin
2021-01-09 17:40 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-01-14 2:34 ` Miaohe Lin
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