The patch titled Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: use match_string() helper to simplify the code has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-use-match_string-helper-to-simplify-the-code.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: use match_string() helper to simplify the code match_string() returns the index of an array for a matching string, which can be used intead of open coded implementation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536988365-50310-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-use-match_string-helper-to-simplify-the-code +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2711,12 +2711,11 @@ static const char * const policy_modes[] int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol) { struct mempolicy *new = NULL; - unsigned short mode; unsigned short mode_flags; nodemask_t nodes; char *nodelist = strchr(str, ':'); char *flags = strchr(str, '='); - int err = 1; + int err = 1, mode; if (nodelist) { /* NUL-terminate mode or flags string */ @@ -2731,12 +2730,8 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mem if (flags) *flags++ = '\0'; /* terminate mode string */ - for (mode = 0; mode < MPOL_MAX; mode++) { - if (!strcmp(str, policy_modes[mode])) { - break; - } - } - if (mode >= MPOL_MAX) + mode = match_string(policy_modes, MPOL_MAX, str); + if (mode < 0) goto out; switch (mode) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-page_owner-align-with-pageblock_nr-pages.patch error-injection-remove-meaningless-null-pointer-check-before-debugfs_remove_recursive.patch lib-sg_pool-remove-unnecessary-null-check-when-free-the-object.patch kernel-kexec_file-remove-some-duplicated-include-file.patch