Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks!! - Ted On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:53:53PM +0800, Coly Li wrote: > In __mb_check_buddy(), look at the bellowed code, > > 591 fstart = -1; > 592 buddy = mb_find_buddy(e4b, 0, &max); > 593 for (i = 0; i < max; i++) { > 594 if (!mb_test_bit(i, buddy)) { > 595 MB_CHECK_ASSERT(i >= e4b->bd_info->bb_first_free); > 596 if (fstart == -1) { > 597 fragments++; > 598 fstart = i; > 599 } > 600 continue; > 601 } > 602 fstart = -1; > 603 /* check used bits only */ > 604 for (j = 0; j < e4b->bd_blkbits + 1; j++) { > 605 buddy2 = mb_find_buddy(e4b, j, &max2); > 606 k = i >> j; > 607 MB_CHECK_ASSERT(k < max2); > 608 MB_CHECK_ASSERT(mb_test_bit(k, buddy2)); > 609 } > 610 } > 611 MB_CHECK_ASSERT(!EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(e4b->bd_info)); > 612 MB_CHECK_ASSERT(e4b->bd_info->bb_fragments == fragments); > 613 > 614 grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, e4b->bd_group); > 615 buddy = mb_find_buddy(e4b, 0, &max); > > On line 592, buddy is fetched by mb_find_buddy() with order 0, between > line 593 to line 615, buddy is not changed, therefore there is > no need to fetch buddy again from mb_find_buddy() with order 0 again. > > We can safely remove the second mb_find_buddy() on line 615. > > Signed-off-by: Coly Li <bosong.ly@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html