The patch titled Subject: hugetlb: remove redundant validation in has_same_uncharge_info() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is hugetlb-remove-redundant-validation-in-has_same_uncharge_info.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hugetlb-remove-redundant-validation-in-has_same_uncharge_info.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hugetlb-remove-redundant-validation-in-has_same_uncharge_info.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: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: hugetlb: remove redundant validation in has_same_uncharge_info() The callers of has_same_uncharge_info() has accessed the original file_region and new file_region, and they are impossible to be NULL now. So we can remove the file_region validation in has_same_uncharge_info() to simplify the code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/97fc68d3f8d34f63c204645e10d7a718997e50b7.1634797639.git.baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-remove-redundant-validation-in-has_same_uncharge_info +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -332,8 +332,7 @@ static bool has_same_uncharge_info(struc struct file_region *org) { #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB - return rg && org && - rg->reservation_counter == org->reservation_counter && + return rg->reservation_counter == org->reservation_counter && rg->css == org->css; #else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are hugetlb-support-node-specified-when-using-cma-for-gigantic-hugepages.patch hugetlb_cgroup-remove-unused-hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter-macro.patch hugetlb-replace-the-obsolete-hugetlb_instantiation_mutex-in-the-comments.patch hugetlb-remove-redundant-validation-in-has_same_uncharge_info.patch hugetlb-remove-redundant-vm_bug_on-in-add_reservation_in_range.patch mm-migrate-simplify-the-file-backed-pages-validation-when-migrating-its-mapping.patch