mm/page_alloc.c: clean up check_for_memory()
check_for_memory() looks a bit confusing. First of all, we have this: if (N_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY) return; Checking the ENUM declaration, looks like N_MEMORY canot be equal to N_NORMAL_MEMORY. I could not find where N_MEMORY is set to N_NORMAL_MEMORY, or the other way around either, so unless I am missing something, this condition will never evaluate to true. It makes sense to get rid of it. Moving forward, the operations within the loop look a bit confusing as well. We set N_HIGH_MEMORY unconditionally, and then we set N_NORMAL_MEMORY in case we have CONFIG_HIGHMEM (N_NORMAL_MEMORY != N_HIGH_MEMORY) and zone <= ZONE_NORMAL. (N_HIGH_MEMORY falls back to N_NORMAL_MEMORY on !CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems, and that is why we can just go ahead and set N_HIGH_MEMORY unconditionally) Although this works, it is a bit subtle. I think that this could be easier to follow: First, we should only set N_HIGH_MEMORY in case we have CONFIG_HIGHMEM. And then we should set N_NORMAL_MEMORY in case zone <= ZONE_NORMAL, without further checking whether we have CONFIG_HIGHMEM or not. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828210158.4617-1-osalvador@techadventures.netSigned-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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