mm/vmalloc.c: remove dead code in vb_alloc
authorZhang Yanfei <[email protected]>
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:59:54 +0000 (15:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:33:20 +0000 (10:33 -0700)
commit3fcd76e8028e0be37b02a2002b4f56755daeda06
tree452c848c3c7f664e28911062076207c14db940d0
parentab15d9b4cbc2b6497023f554a152c2573ca53671
mm/vmalloc.c: remove dead code in vb_alloc

Space in a vmap block that was once allocated is considered dirty and
not made available for allocation again before the whole block is
recycled.  The result is that free space within a vmap block is always
contiguous.

So if a vmap block has enough free space for allocation, the allocation
is impossible to fail.  Thus, the fragmented block purging was never
invoked from vb_alloc().  So remove this dead code.

[ Same patches also sent by:

    Chanho Min <[email protected]>
    Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>

  but git doesn't do "multiple authors" ]

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/vmalloc.c