Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: remove meaningless variable avoid_reserve

2021-01-21 Thread Mike Kravetz
On 1/19/21 11:15 PM, Miaohe Lin wrote: > The variable avoid_reserve is meaningless because we never changed its > value and just passed it to alloc_huge_page(). So remove it to make code > more clear that in hugetlbfs_fallocate, we never avoid reserve when alloc > hugepage yet. Also add a comment o

[PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: remove meaningless variable avoid_reserve

2021-01-19 Thread Miaohe Lin
The variable avoid_reserve is meaningless because we never changed its value and just passed it to alloc_huge_page(). So remove it to make code more clear that in hugetlbfs_fallocate, we never avoid reserve when alloc hugepage yet. Also add a comment offered by Mike Kravetz to explain this. Review