Re: [PATCH] kvm : remove redundant initialization of page->private

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On 03/08/2010 06:20 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 17:33 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
The  prep_new_page() will call set_page_private(page, 0) to initiate
the page.

So the code is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie<shijie8@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  mm/shmem.c |    2 --
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index eef4ebe..dde4363 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -433,8 +433,6 @@ static swp_entry_t *shmem_swp_alloc(struct shmem_inode_info *info, unsigned long

  		spin_unlock(&info->lock);
  		page = shmem_dir_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping));
-		if (page)
-			set_page_private(page, 0);
  		spin_lock(&info->lock);

  		if (!page) {
And I found another place while I review the code.

> From e64322cde914e43d080d8f3be6f72459d809a934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Minchan Kim<barrios@barrios-desktop.(none)>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:09:56 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] kvm : remove redundant initialization of page->private.

The prep_new_page() in page allocator calls set_page_private(page, 0).
So we don't need to reinitialize private of page.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    1 -
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 741373e..9851d0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -326,7 +326,6 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(struct
kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
  		page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
  		if (!page)
  			return -ENOMEM;
-		set_page_private(page, 0);
  		cache->objects[cache->nobjs++] = page_address(page);
  	}
  	return 0;

Whitespace damage, please resend.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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