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    mm/vmalloc.c: remove dead code in vb_alloc · 3fcd76e8
    Zhang Yanfei authored
    Space in a vmap block that was once allocated is considered dirty and
    not made available for allocation again before the whole block is
    recycled.  The result is that free space within a vmap block is always
    contiguous.
    
    So if a vmap block has enough free space for allocation, the allocation
    is impossible to fail.  Thus, the fragmented block purging was never
    invoked from vb_alloc().  So remove this dead code.
    
    [ Same patches also sent by:
    
        Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    
      but git doesn't do "multiple authors" ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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