linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: remove redundant reservation check condition in alloc_huge

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Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:54:43 -0500
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
CC:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: remove redundant reservation check condition in alloc_huge_page()

If there is no reservation corresponding to a vma, map_chg is always != 0,
i.e. we can not meet the condition where a vma does not have reservation
while map_chg = 0.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 4f2c92ddbca4..36c3646fa55f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2311,7 +2311,7 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	/* If this allocation is not consuming a reservation, charge it now.
 	 */
-	deferred_reserve = map_chg || avoid_reserve || !vma_resv_map(vma);
+	deferred_reserve = map_chg || avoid_reserve;
 	if (deferred_reserve) {
 		ret = hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd(
 			idx, pages_per_huge_page(h), &h_cg);
-- 
2.19.1