linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: minor lock simplification in __khugepaged

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Message-ID: <20110614100655.GF6371@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:06:55 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: minor lock simplification in __khugepaged_exit

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:33:55PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> The lock is released first thing in all three branches.  Simplify this
> by unconditionally releasing lock and remove else clause which was only
> there to be sure lock was released.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
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