The patch titled
Subject: mm/filemap.c: remove useless check in pagecache_get_page()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-remove-useless-check-in-pagecache_get_page.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-remove-useless-check-in-pagecache_get_page.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-remove-useless-check-in-pagecache_get_page.patch
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From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/filemap.c: remove useless check in pagecache_get_page()
page always is not NULL, so we may remove this useless check.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154419752044.18559.2452963074922917720.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-remove-useless-check-in-pagecache_get_page
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ repeat:
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index != offset, page);
}
- if (page && (fgp_flags & FGP_ACCESSED))
+ if (fgp_flags & FGP_ACCESSED)
mark_page_accessed(page);
no_page:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
ksm-assist-buddy-allocator-to-assemble-1-order-pages.patch
mm-remove-useless-check-in-pagecache_get_page.patch
