linux-kernel - [patch -mm 2/2] mm, oom: remove unnecessary variable

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1507141644530.16182@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:45:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [patch -mm 2/2] mm, oom: remove unnecessary variable

The "killed" variable in out_of_memory() can be removed since the call to
oom_kill_process() where we should block to allow the process time to
exit is obvious.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -645,7 +645,6 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 	unsigned long freed = 0;
 	unsigned int uninitialized_var(points);
 	enum oom_constraint constraint = CONSTRAINT_NONE;
-	int killed = 0;
 
 	if (oom_killer_disabled)
 		return false;
@@ -653,7 +652,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&oom_notify_list, 0, &freed);
 	if (freed > 0)
 		/* Got some memory back in the last second. */
-		goto out;
+		return true;
 
 	/*
 	 * If current has a pending SIGKILL or is exiting, then automatically
@@ -666,7 +665,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 	if (current->mm &&
 	    (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current))) {
 		mark_oom_victim(current);
-		goto out;
+		return true;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -684,7 +683,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 		get_task_struct(current);
 		oom_kill_process(oc, current, 0, totalpages, NULL,
 				 "Out of memory (oom_kill_allocating_task)");
-		goto out;
+		return true;
 	}
 
 	p = select_bad_process(oc, &points, totalpages);
@@ -696,16 +695,12 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 	if (p && p != (void *)-1UL) {
 		oom_kill_process(oc, p, points, totalpages, NULL,
 				 "Out of memory");
-		killed = 1;
-	}
-out:
-	/*
-	 * Give the killed threads a good chance of exiting before trying to
-	 * allocate memory again.
-	 */
-	if (killed)
+		/*
+		 * Give the killed process a good chance to exit before trying
+		 * to allocate memory again.
+		 */
 		schedule_timeout_killable(1);
-
+	}
 	return true;
 }
 
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