On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:22:33PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
> Since a list entry may be removed, so use list_for_each_entry_safe
> instead of list_for_each_entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/slob.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
> index 3f19a34..e2af18b 100644
> --- a/mm/slob.c
> +++ b/mm/slob.c
> @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static void *slob_page_alloc(struct slob_page *sp, size_t size, int align)
> */
> static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
> {
> - struct slob_page *sp;
> + struct slob_page *sp, *tmp;
> struct list_head *prev;
> struct list_head *slob_list;
> slob_t *b = NULL;
> @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&slob_lock, flags);
> /* Iterate through each partially free page, try to find room */
> - list_for_each_entry(sp, slob_list, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, tmp, slob_list, list) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
sp's list head is only modified if an allocation was successful, but
then the iteration stops as well. So I see no reason for your patch.
Did I overlook something?
Hannes
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