linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] mm/zsmalloc.c: improve readability for async_free

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:39:30 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <minchan@...nel.org>,
        <ngupta@...are.org>
CC:     <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mm/zsmalloc.c: improve readability for async_free_zspage()

The class is extracted from pool->size_class[class_idx] again before
calling __free_zspage(). It looks like class will change after we fetch
the class lock. But this is misleading as class will stay unchanged.

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

diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
index 0b4b23740d78..8598ee07284b 100644
--- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
@@ -2161,7 +2161,7 @@ static void async_free_zspage(struct work_struct *work)
 		VM_BUG_ON(fullness != ZS_EMPTY);
 		class = pool->size_class[class_idx];
 		spin_lock(&class->lock);
-		__free_zspage(pool, pool->size_class[class_idx], zspage);
+		__free_zspage(pool, class, zspage);
 		spin_unlock(&class->lock);
 	}
 };
-- 
2.23.0