The patch titled Subject: kernel/notifier.c: simplify expression has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is notifier-simplify-expression.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/notifier-simplify-expression.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/notifier-simplify-expression.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: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/notifier.c: simplify expression NOTIFY_STOP_MASK (0x8000) has only one bit set and there is no need to compare output of "ret & NOTIFY_STOP_MASK" to NOTIFY_STOP_MASK. We just need to make sure the output is non-zero, that's it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/88ee58264a2bfab1c97ffc8ac753e25f55f57c10.1483593065.git.viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/notifier.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/notifier.c~notifier-simplify-expression kernel/notifier.c --- a/kernel/notifier.c~notifier-simplify-expression +++ a/kernel/notifier.c @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int notifier_call_chain(struct no if (nr_calls) (*nr_calls)++; - if ((ret & NOTIFY_STOP_MASK) == NOTIFY_STOP_MASK) + if (ret & NOTIFY_STOP_MASK) break; nb = next_nb; nr_to_call--; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx are notifier-simplify-expression.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