linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/page_alloc.c: fix obsolete comment in free_pcppages

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Date:   Thu, 2 Sep 2021 20:12:40 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <vbabka@...e.cz>, <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
        <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, <david@...hat.com>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/page_alloc.c: fix obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk()

The second two paragraphs about "all pages pinned" and pages_scanned is
obsolete. And There are PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER + 1 + NR_PCP_THP orders
in pcp. So the same order assumption is not held now.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d3983244f56f..f7fcbac2d091 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1426,14 +1426,8 @@ static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct page *page)
 
 /*
  * Frees a number of pages from the PCP lists
- * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone, and of same order.
+ * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone.
  * count is the number of pages to free.
- *
- * If the zone was previously in an "all pages pinned" state then look to
- * see if this freeing clears that state.
- *
- * And clear the zone's pages_scanned counter, to hold off the "all pages are
- * pinned" detection logic.
  */
 static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
 					struct per_cpu_pages *pcp)
-- 
2.23.0