For each round-trip, we assign generation on first invocation and compare it on subsequent invocations. Let's move them together to make it more self-explaining. Also this reduce a check on prev. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 03399146168f..17da93c2f94e 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -996,7 +996,14 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root, mz = root->nodeinfo[reclaim->pgdat->node_id]; iter = &mz->iter; - if (prev && reclaim->generation != iter->generation) + /* + * On first invocation, assign iter->generation to + * reclaim->generation. + * On subsequent invocations, make sure no one else jump in. + */ + if (!prev) + reclaim->generation = iter->generation; + else if (reclaim->generation != iter->generation) goto out_unlock; while (1) { @@ -1056,8 +1063,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root, if (!memcg) iter->generation++; - else if (!prev) - reclaim->generation = iter->generation; } out_unlock: -- 2.33.1