The patch titled Subject: mm/page_isolation: clean up confused code has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-page_isolation-clean-up-confused-code.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_isolation-clean-up-confused-code.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_isolation-clean-up-confused-code.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: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page_isolation: clean up confused code When there is an isolated_page, post_alloc_hook() is called with page but __free_pages() is called with isolated_page. Since they are the same so no problem but it's very confusing. To reduce it, this patch changes isolated_page to boolean type and uses page variable consistently. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466150259-27727-10-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_isolation.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page_isolation.c~mm-page_isolation-clean-up-confused-code mm/page_isolation.c --- a/mm/page_isolation.c~mm-page_isolation-clean-up-confused-code +++ a/mm/page_isolation.c @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void unset_migratetype_isolate(st { struct zone *zone; unsigned long flags, nr_pages; - struct page *isolated_page = NULL; + bool isolated_page = false; unsigned int order; unsigned long page_idx, buddy_idx; struct page *buddy; @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static void unset_migratetype_isolate(st if (pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(buddy)) && !is_migrate_isolate_page(buddy)) { __isolate_free_page(page, order); - isolated_page = page; + isolated_page = true; } } } @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ out: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags); if (isolated_page) { post_alloc_hook(page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE); - __free_pages(isolated_page, order); + __free_pages(page, order); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx are mm-compaction-split-freepages-without-holding-the-zone-lock.patch mm-page_owner-initialize-page-owner-without-holding-the-zone-lock.patch mm-page_owner-copy-last_migrate_reason-in-copy_page_owner.patch mm-page_owner-introduce-split_page_owner-and-replace-manual-handling.patch tools-vm-page_owner-increase-temporary-buffer-size.patch mm-page_owner-use-stackdepot-to-store-stacktrace.patch mm-page_owner-use-stackdepot-to-store-stacktrace-v3.patch mm-page_alloc-introduce-post-allocation-processing-on-page-allocator.patch mm-page_alloc-introduce-post-allocation-processing-on-page-allocator-v3.patch mm-page_isolation-clean-up-confused-code.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