Till here, i must no less than start. And if i equals to start, store_status() would always return 0. Remove some unnecessary check to make it easy to read and prepare for further cleanup. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 6a6c8f247bce..ae3db45c6a42 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1674,11 +1674,9 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t task_nodes, err += nr_pages - i - 1; goto out; } - if (i > start) { - err = store_status(status, start, current_node, i - start); - if (err) - goto out; - } + err = store_status(status, start, current_node, i - start); + if (err) + goto out; current_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; } out_flush: -- 2.17.1