linux-kernel - [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/gart: Drop unnecessary check

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Date:	Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:50:45 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Wang YanQing <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, udknight@...il.com
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/gart: Drop unnecessary check

Commit-ID:  26bfc540f6f2dcbd93d0b9ed8f37830419ded7e8
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/26bfc540f6f2dcbd93d0b9ed8f37830419ded7e8
Author:     Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:37:34 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:54:40 +0200

x86/mm/gart: Drop unnecessary check

The memblock_find_in_range() return value addr is guaranteed
to be within "addr + aper_size" and not beyond GART_MAX_ADDR.

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
Cc: yinghai@...nel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130416013734.GA14641@udknight
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
index d5fd66f..fd972a3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void)
 	 */
 	addr = memblock_find_in_range(GART_MIN_ADDR, GART_MAX_ADDR,
 				      aper_size, aper_size);
-	if (!addr || addr + aper_size > GART_MAX_ADDR) {
+	if (!addr) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
 			"Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (%lx,%uK)\n",
 				addr, aper_size>>10);
--
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