The patch titled Subject: mm/swapfile.c: tmp is always smaller than max has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-swapfilec-tmp-is-always-smaller-than-max.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swapfilec-tmp-is-always-smaller-than-max.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swapfilec-tmp-is-always-smaller-than-max.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/process/submit-checklist.rst 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/swapfile.c: tmp is always smaller than max If tmp is bigger or equal to max, we would jump to new_cluster. Return true directly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200419013921.14390-2-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swapfilec-tmp-is-always-smaller-than-max +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ new_cluster: cluster->next = tmp + 1; *offset = tmp; *scan_base = tmp; - return tmp < max; + return true; } static void __del_from_avail_list(struct swap_info_struct *p) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are mm-swapfilec-offset-is-only-used-when-there-is-more-slots.patch mm-swapfilec-explicitly-show-ssd-non-ssd-is-handled-mutually-exclusive.patch mm-swapfilec-remove-the-unnecessary-goto-for-ssd-case.patch mm-swapfilec-simplify-the-calculation-of-n_goal.patch mm-swapfilec-remove-the-extra-check-in-scan_swap_map_slots.patch mm-swapfilec-found_free-could-be-represented-by-tmp-max.patch mm-swapfilec-tmp-is-always-smaller-than-max.patch mm-swapfilec-compare-tmp-and-max-after-trying-to-iterate-on-swap_map.patch mm-swapfilec-move-new_cluster-to-check-free_clusters-directly.patch mm-page_allocc-bad_-is-not-necessary-when-pagehwpoison.patch mm-page_allocc-bad_flags-is-not-necessary-for-bad_page.patch mm-page_allocc-rename-free_pages_check_bad-to-check_free_page_bad.patch mm-page_allocc-rename-free_pages_check-to-check_free_page.patch mm-page_allocc-extract-check__page_bad-common-part-to-page_bad_reason.patch mm-page_allocc-use-node_mask_none-in-build_zonelists.patch mm-rename-gfpflags_to_migratetype-to-gfp_migratetype-for-same-convention.patch mm-vmscanc-use-update_lru_size-in-update_lru_sizes.patch