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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2010-08-10 18:03:17 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-11 08:59:20 -0700 |
commit | c52b0b91ba1f4b7ea90e20385c0a6df0ba54aed4 (patch) | |
tree | 6d92439150a3218da5807610991da4d70af56bf8 /kernel/notifier.c | |
parent | 5fdee8c4a5e1800489ce61963208f8cc55e42ea1 (diff) |
pids: alloc_pidmap: remove the unnecessary boundary checks
alloc_pidmap() calculates max_scan so that if the initial offset != 0 we
inspect the first map->page twice. This is correct, we want to find the
unused bits < offset in this bitmap block. Add the comment.
But it doesn't make any sense to stop the find_next_offset() loop when we
are looking into this map->page for the second time. We have already
already checked the bits >= offset during the first attempt, it is fine to
do this again, no matter if we succeed this time or not.
Remove this hard-to-understand code. It optimizes the very unlikely case
when we are going to fail, but slows down the more likely case.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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