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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] thp: introduce khugepaged_prealloc_page and khugepaged_alloc_page
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:33:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1209122329320.7848@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1209122316200.7831@eggly.anvils>

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > @@ -1825,6 +1825,7 @@ static bool khugepaged_prealloc_page(struct page **hpage, bool *wait)
> >  			return false;
> > 
> >  		*wait = false;
> > +		*hpage = NULL;
> >  		khugepaged_alloc_sleep();
> >  	} else if (*hpage) {
> >  		put_page(*hpage);
> 
> The unshown line just below this is
> 
> 		*hpage = NULL;
> 
> I do wish you would take the "*hpage = NULL;" out of if and else blocks
> and place it once below both.

Hold on, I'm being unreasonable: that's an "else if", and I've no good
reason to request you to set *hpage = NULL when it's already NULL.
It would be okay if you did, but there's no reason for me to prefer it.

Hugh

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 11:12 [PATCH 00/12] thp: optimize use of khugepaged_mutex and dependence of CONFIG_NUMA Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:13 ` [PATCH 01/12] thp: fix the count of THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:19   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-08-13 11:13 ` [PATCH 02/12] thp: remove unnecessary check in start_khugepaged Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:14 ` [PATCH 03/12] thp: move khugepaged_mutex out of khugepaged Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:14 ` [PATCH 04/12] thp: remove unnecessary khugepaged_thread check Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:14 ` [PATCH 05/12] thp: remove wake_up_interruptible in the exit path Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:15 ` [PATCH 06/12] thp: remove some code depend on CONFIG_NUMA Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:15 ` [PATCH 07/12] thp: merge page pre-alloc in khugepaged_loop into khugepaged_do_scan Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:16 ` [PATCH 08/12] thp: release page in page pre-alloc path Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:16 ` [PATCH 09/12] thp: introduce khugepaged_prealloc_page and khugepaged_alloc_page Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-12  2:03   ` Hugh Dickins
2012-09-12  2:35     ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-12  3:37     ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-13  6:27       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-09-13  6:33         ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2012-09-13  9:26         ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:16 ` [PATCH 10/12] thp: remove khugepaged_loop Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:17 ` [PATCH 11/12] thp: use khugepaged_enabled to remove duplicate code Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-13 11:17 ` [PATCH 12/12] thp: remove unnecessary set_recommended_min_free_kbytes Xiao Guangrong

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