From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx197.postini.com [74.125.245.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91ED06B0002 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:13:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id f12so3397497wgh.27 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:13:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <51ACB6DB.6040809@gmail.com> References: <51ACB6DB.6040809@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 01:13:34 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, vmalloc: Only call setup_vmalloc_vm only in __get_vm_area_node From: JoonSoo Kim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Zhang Yanfei Cc: Andrew Morton , Joonsoo Kim , Linux MM , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Hello, Zhang. 2013/6/4 Zhang Yanfei : > From: Zhang Yanfei > > Now for insert_vmalloc_vm, it only calls the two functions: > - setup_vmalloc_vm: fill vm_struct and vmap_area instances > - clear_vm_unlist: clear VM_UNLIST bit in vm_struct->flags > > So in function __get_vm_area_node, if VM_UNLIST bit unset > in flags, that is the else branch here, we don't need to > clear VM_UNLIST bit for vm->flags since this bit is obviously > not set. That is to say, we could only call setup_vmalloc_vm > instead of insert_vmalloc_vm here. And then we could even > remove the if test here. > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei For all three patches, Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim > --- > mm/vmalloc.c | 11 +---------- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c > index d365724..6580c76 100644 > --- a/mm/vmalloc.c > +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c > @@ -1367,16 +1367,7 @@ static struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_node(unsigned long size, > return NULL; > } > > - /* > - * When this function is called from __vmalloc_node_range, > - * we add VM_UNLIST flag to avoid accessing uninitialized > - * members of vm_struct such as pages and nr_pages fields. > - * They will be set later. > - */ > - if (flags & VM_UNLIST) > - setup_vmalloc_vm(area, va, flags, caller); > - else > - insert_vmalloc_vm(area, va, flags, caller); > + setup_vmalloc_vm(area, va, flags, caller); > > return area; > } > -- > 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org