The rule of list walk has gone since: commit a9d5adeeb4b2 ("mm/memcontrol: allow to uncharge page without using page->lru field") So remove the strange comment and replace the loop with a list_for_each_entry(). Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 17 ++--------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 6c7f1ea3955e..43341bd7ea1c 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -6891,24 +6891,11 @@ static void uncharge_page(struct page *page, struct uncharge_gather *ug) static void uncharge_list(struct list_head *page_list) { struct uncharge_gather ug; - struct list_head *next; + struct page *page; uncharge_gather_clear(&ug); - - /* - * Note that the list can be a single page->lru; hence the - * do-while loop instead of a simple list_for_each_entry(). - */ - next = page_list->next; - do { - struct page *page; - - page = list_entry(next, struct page, lru); - next = page->lru.next; - + list_for_each_entry(page, page_list, lru) uncharge_page(page, &ug); - } while (next != page_list); - uncharge_batch(&ug); } -- 2.11.0