The patch titled Subject: mm/slab.c use list_first_entry_or_null() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slab-use-list_first_entry_or_null.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slab-use-list_first_entry_or_null.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slab-use-list_first_entry_or_null.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slab.c use list_first_entry_or_null() Simplify the code with list_first_entry_or_null(). Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~mm-slab-use-list_first_entry_or_null mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~mm-slab-use-list_first_entry_or_null +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -2791,18 +2791,18 @@ retry: } while (batchcount > 0) { - struct list_head *entry; struct page *page; /* Get slab alloc is to come from. */ - entry = n->slabs_partial.next; - if (entry == &n->slabs_partial) { + page = list_first_entry_or_null(&n->slabs_partial, + struct page, lru); + if (!page) { n->free_touched = 1; - entry = n->slabs_free.next; - if (entry == &n->slabs_free) + page = list_first_entry_or_null(&n->slabs_free, + struct page, lru); + if (!page) goto must_grow; } - page = list_entry(entry, struct page, lru); check_spinlock_acquired(cachep); /* @@ -3085,7 +3085,6 @@ retry: static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid) { - struct list_head *entry; struct page *page; struct kmem_cache_node *n; void *obj; @@ -3098,15 +3097,16 @@ static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct retry: check_irq_off(); spin_lock(&n->list_lock); - entry = n->slabs_partial.next; - if (entry == &n->slabs_partial) { + page = list_first_entry_or_null(&n->slabs_partial, + struct page, lru); + if (!page) { n->free_touched = 1; - entry = n->slabs_free.next; - if (entry == &n->slabs_free) + page = list_first_entry_or_null(&n->slabs_free, + struct page, lru); + if (!page) goto must_grow; } - page = list_entry(entry, struct page, lru); check_spinlock_acquired_node(cachep, nodeid); STATS_INC_NODEALLOCS(cachep); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from geliangtang@xxxxxxx are fsnotify-use-list_next_entry-in-fsnotify_unmount_inodes.patch mm-slab-use-list_first_entry_or_null.patch mm-slab-use-list_for_each_entry-in-cache_flusharray.patch mm-vmalloc-use-list_nextfirst_entry.patch mm-thp-use-list_first_entry_or_null.patch mm-page_allocc-use-list_firstlast_entry-instead-of-list_entry.patch mm-page_allocc-use-list_for_each_entry-in-mark_free_pages.patch dma-mapping-use-offset_in_page-macro.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html