Commit 8b592656 authored Mar 17, 2016 by Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 17, 2016

mm: memcontrol: clarify the uncharge_list() loop



uncharge_list() does an unusual list walk because the function can take
regular lists with dedicated list_heads as well as singleton lists where
a single page is passed via the page->lru list node.

This can sometimes lead to confusion as well as suggestions to replace
the loop with a list_for_each_entry(), which wouldn't work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent b6e6edcf

mm/memcontrol.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -5420,6 +5420,10 @@ static void uncharge_list(struct list_head *page_list)
		struct list_head *next;
		struct page *page;

		/*
		* Note that the list can be a single page->lru; hence the
		* do-while loop instead of a simple list_for_each_entry().
		*/
		next = page_list->next;
		do {
		unsigned int nr_pages = 1;

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