linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Simplify for-loop in free_init

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Message-ID: <1342299095.8377.39.camel@joe2Laptop>
Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:51:35 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, mingo@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Simplify for-loop in free_init_pages()

On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 23:48 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 13:36 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> wrote:
> >> > As a cleanup, move initial "addr" assignment to the for-loop construct
> >> > in free_init_pages().
> >
> > Not really a good idea.
> 
> Of course it's a good idea. The current code flow makes no sense.
> 
> >> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> > []
> >> > @@ -349,8 +349,6 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
> >> >         if (begin >= end)
> >> >                 return;
> >> >
> >> > -       addr = begin;
> >> > -
> >> >         /*
> >> >          * If debugging page accesses then do not free this memory but
> >> >          * mark them not present - any buggy init-section access will
> >> > @@ -371,7 +369,7 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
> >> >
> >> >         printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);
> >> >
> >> > -       for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> >> > +       for (addr = begin; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> >> >                 ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
> >> >                 init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));
> >> >                 memset((void *)addr, POISON_FREE_INITMEM, PAGE_SIZE);
> >> > --
> >
> > Now there's an unused variable warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> 
> Sure, that needs fixing. It'd probably be simplest to introduce a
> __free_init_pages() helper.
> 

The proposed patch introduces a warning.
That's the only reason it's not a good idea.
There are lots of ways to fix it.


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