The patch titled Subject: mm/slub.c: remove a redundant assignment in ___slab_alloc() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slub-remove-a-redundant-assignment-in-___slab_alloc.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-remove-a-redundant-assignment-in-___slab_alloc.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-remove-a-redundant-assignment-in-___slab_alloc.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: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub.c: remove a redundant assignment in ___slab_alloc() When the code comes to this point, there are two cases: 1. cpu_slab is deactivated 2. cpu_slab is empty In both cased, cpu_slab->freelist is NULL at this moment. This patch removes the redundant assignment of cpu_slab->freelist. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170507031215.3130-1-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: 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/slub.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/slub.c~mm-slub-remove-a-redundant-assignment-in-___slab_alloc mm/slub.c --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-remove-a-redundant-assignment-in-___slab_alloc +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -2572,7 +2572,6 @@ new_slab: page = c->page = c->partial; c->partial = page->next; stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_ALLOC); - c->freelist = NULL; goto redo; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are mm-slub-remove-a-redundant-assignment-in-___slab_alloc.patch mm-slub-reset-cpu_slabs-pointer-in-deactivate_slab.patch mm-page_alloc-return-0-in-case-this-node-has-no-page-within-the-zone.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