Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Jun 19 2017 - 16:23:52 EST


On 06/19/2017 09:05 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19 2017, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 06/19/2017 03:54 PM, Hao Lee wrote:
>>> The variable current_order decreases from MAX_ORDER-1 to order, so the
>>> condition current_order <= MAX_ORDER-1 is always true.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Sounds right.
>>
>> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
>
> current_order and order are both unsigned, and if order==0,
> current_order >= order is always true, and we may decrement
> current_order past 0 making it UINT_MAX... A comment would be in order,
> though.

Doh, right. Thanks.