The patch titled Subject: epoll: move eavail next to the list_empty_careful check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was epoll-move-eavail-next-to-the-list_empty_careful-check.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: epoll: move eavail next to the list_empty_careful check This is a no-op change and simply to make the code more coherent. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106231635.3528496-5-soheil.kdev@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guantao Liu <guantaol@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/eventpoll.c~epoll-move-eavail-next-to-the-list_empty_careful-check +++ a/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1828,6 +1828,7 @@ fetch_events: if (!eavail) timed_out = !schedule_hrtimeout_range(to, slack, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS); + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); /* * We were woken up, thus go and try to harvest some events. @@ -1837,8 +1838,6 @@ fetch_events: eavail = 1; } while (0); - __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - if (!list_empty_careful(&wait.entry)) { write_lock_irq(&ep->lock); /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from soheil@xxxxxxxxxx are