Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2012-12-20

Re: [PATCH] mm/sparse: don't check return value of alloc_bootmem calls

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2012-12-20 20:30:12
Also in: lkml

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Sasha Levin wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 6b5fb76..ae64d6e 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -403,15 +403,13 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page **map_map,
 	size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
 	map = __alloc_bootmem_node_high(NODE_DATA(nodeid), size * map_count,
 					 PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
-	if (map) {
-		for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
-			if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
-				continue;
-			map_map[pnum] = map;
-			map += size;
-		}
-		return;
+	for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
+		if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
+			continue;
+		map_map[pnum] = map;
+		map += size;
 	}
+	return;
 
 	/* fallback */
 	for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
That's not true when slab_is_available() and why would you possibly add a 
return statement right before fallback code in such cases?

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