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

From Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop
Date 2017-06-19 22:30 +0200
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On 06/19/2017 09:05 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19 2017, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 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@gmail.com>
>>
>> Sounds right.
>>
>> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> 
> 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.

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[PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 16:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-06-19 16:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2017-06-19 21:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-06-19 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 03:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: remove a redundant condition in the for loop Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-21 11:50 +0200
        [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: eliminate unsigned confusion in __rmqueue_fallback Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2017-06-21 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: eliminate unsigned confusion in  __rmqueue_fallback Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-23 14:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: eliminate unsigned confusion in  __rmqueue_fallback Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-06-23 15:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: eliminate unsigned confusion in  __rmqueue_fallback Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 15:30 +0200

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