Per my understanding, we keep the regions ordered and would always coalesce regions properly. So the task to keep this property is just to coalesce its neighbour. Let's simplify this. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 590111ea6975..62ec74f6d03f 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -307,8 +307,7 @@ static void coalesce_file_region(struct resv_map *resv, struct file_region *rg) list_del(&rg->link); kfree(rg); - coalesce_file_region(resv, prg); - return; + rg = prg; } nrg = list_next_entry(rg, link); @@ -318,9 +317,6 @@ static void coalesce_file_region(struct resv_map *resv, struct file_region *rg) list_del(&rg->link); kfree(rg); - - coalesce_file_region(resv, nrg); - return; } } -- 2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)