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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: compaction: Remove redundant VM_BUG_ON() in compact_zone()
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:25:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230110152532.8b2d34bf04d7b8e9a4e39130@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y71qNeLNeiBB5a/+@casper.infradead.org>

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:37:57 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 09:36:18PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> > The compaction_suitable() will never return values other than COMPACT_SUCCESS,
> > COMPACT_SKIPPED and COMPACT_CONTINUE, so after validation of COMPACT_SUCCESS
> > and COMPACT_SKIPPED, we will never hit other unexpected case. Thus remove
> > the redundant VM_BUG_ON() validation for the return values of compaction_suitable().
> 
> I don't understand why we'd remove this check.

Well, just from code inspection it serves no purpose.

Such an assertion might be useful during early code development, but I
think we can consider compaction_suitable() to adequately debugged by
now?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-10 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-10 13:36 [PATCH 0/5] Some small improvements for compaction Baolin Wang
2023-01-10 13:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: compaction: Remove redundant VM_BUG_ON() in compact_zone() Baolin Wang
2023-01-10 13:37   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-10 23:25     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-01-10 23:37       ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-11  6:40         ` Baolin Wang
2023-01-11 21:51           ` Andrew Morton
2023-01-10 13:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: compaction: Move list validation into compact_zone() Baolin Wang
2023-01-10 13:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: compaction: Count the migration scanned pages events for proactive compaction Baolin Wang
2023-01-10 13:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: compaction: Add missing kcompactd wakeup trace event Baolin Wang
2023-01-10 13:36 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: compaction: Avoid fragmentation score calculation for empty zones Baolin Wang

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