[PATCH] x86/mm: stop allocating pmd page if failed

From: Yuanhan Liu
Date: Tue Jul 24 2012 - 09:17:01 EST


The old code would call __get_free_page() even though previous
allocation fail met. This is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yliu.null@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 8573b83..6760348 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -181,24 +181,24 @@ static void free_pmds(pmd_t *pmds[])
{
int i;

- for(i = 0; i < PREALLOCATED_PMDS; i++)
- if (pmds[i])
- free_page((unsigned long)pmds[i]);
+ for(i = 0; i < PREALLOCATED_PMDS; i++) {
+ if (pmds[i] == NULL)
+ break;
+ free_page((unsigned long)pmds[i]);
+ }
}

static int preallocate_pmds(pmd_t *pmds[])
{
int i;
- bool failed = false;

for(i = 0; i < PREALLOCATED_PMDS; i++) {
- pmd_t *pmd = (pmd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
- if (pmd == NULL)
- failed = true;
- pmds[i] = pmd;
+ pmds[i] = (pmd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
+ if (pmds[i] == NULL)
+ break;
}

- if (failed) {
+ if (i < PREALLOCATED_PMDS) {
free_pmds(pmds);
return -ENOMEM;
}
--
1.7.4.4

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