linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Do not use double negation for testing page flags

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:31:18 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@....com, Vlastimil Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Do not use double negation for testing page flags

On 03/07/2017 12:06 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> With the discussion[1], I found it seems there are every PageFlags
> functions return bool at this moment so we don't need double
> negation any more.
> Although it's not a problem to keep it, it makes future users
> confused to use dobule negation for them, too.
> 
> Remove such possibility.

A quick search of '!!Page' in the source tree does not show any other
place having this double negation. So I guess this is all which need
to be fixed.