linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary next_page in break_down_buddy

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:35:14 +0800
From:   Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, naoya.horiguchi@....com,
        osalvador@...e.de, willy@...radead.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary next_page in break_down_buddy_pages

The next_page is only used to forward page in case target is in second
half range. Move forward page directly to remove unnecessary next_page.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bad979493dde..7df77b58a961 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6678,20 +6678,18 @@ static void break_down_buddy_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
 				   int migratetype)
 {
 	unsigned long size = 1 << high;
-	struct page *current_buddy, *next_page;
+	struct page *current_buddy;
 
 	while (high > low) {
 		high--;
 		size >>= 1;
 
 		if (target >= &page[size]) {
-			next_page = page + size;
 			current_buddy = page;
+			page = page + size;
 		} else {
-			next_page = page;
 			current_buddy = page + size;
 		}
-		page = next_page;
 
 		if (set_page_guard(zone, current_buddy, high, migratetype))
 			continue;
-- 
2.30.0