On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:37:57 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 09:36:18PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > > The compaction_suitable() will never return values other than COMPACT_SUCCESS, > > COMPACT_SKIPPED and COMPACT_CONTINUE, so after validation of COMPACT_SUCCESS > > and COMPACT_SKIPPED, we will never hit other unexpected case. Thus remove > > the redundant VM_BUG_ON() validation for the return values of compaction_suitable(). > > I don't understand why we'd remove this check. Well, just from code inspection it serves no purpose. Such an assertion might be useful during early code development, but I think we can consider compaction_suitable() to adequately debugged by now?