linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] mm, vmscan: Remove redundant check in shrink

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:50:24 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mm, vmscan: Remove redundant check in shrink_zones()

As pointed out by Minchan Kim, shrink_zones() checks for populated
zones in a zonelist but a zonelist can never contain unpopulated
zones. While it's not related to the node-lru series, it can be
cleaned up now.

Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 3f06a7a0d135..45344acf52ba 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2605,9 +2605,6 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 
 	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
 					sc->reclaim_idx, sc->nodemask) {
-		if (!populated_zone(zone))
-			continue;
-
 		/*
 		 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
 		 * to global LRU.
-- 
2.6.4