On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:24:22 +0200 mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx> > > Previously variable 'tmp' was initialized, but was not read later > before reassigning. So the initialization can be removed. > > ... > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -5637,7 +5637,7 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask) > int n, val; > int min_val = INT_MAX; > int best_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; > - const struct cpumask *tmp = cpumask_of_node(0); > + const struct cpumask *tmp; > > /* Use the local node if we haven't already */ > if (!node_isset(node, *used_node_mask)) { OK. But we may as well kill tmp altogether? --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization-fix +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5637,7 +5637,6 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, int n, val; int min_val = INT_MAX; int best_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; - const struct cpumask *tmp; /* Use the local node if we haven't already */ if (!node_isset(node, *used_node_mask)) { @@ -5658,8 +5657,7 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, val += (n < node); /* Give preference to headless and unused nodes */ - tmp = cpumask_of_node(n); - if (!cpumask_empty(tmp)) + if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(n))) val += PENALTY_FOR_NODE_WITH_CPUS; /* Slight preference for less loaded node */ _