The patch titled
Subject: page_alloc: remove inactive initialization
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
page_alloc-remove-inactive-initialization.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/page_alloc-remove-inactive-initialization.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: page_alloc: remove inactive initialization
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 14:41:18 +0800
The allocation address of the table pointer variable is first performed in
the function, no initialization assignment is required, and no invalid
pointer will appear.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220803064118.3664-1-kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page_alloc-remove-inactive-initialization
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8983,7 +8983,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(con
{
unsigned long long max = high_limit;
unsigned long log2qty, size;
- void *table = NULL;
+ void *table;
gfp_t gfp_flags;
bool virt;
bool huge;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
page_alloc-remove-inactive-initialization.patch
