[PATCH] vmscan: Remove if statement that will never trigger

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 17:06:00 EST


We have this code in mm/vmscan.c:shrink_slab() :
...
if (total_scan < 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to "
"delete nr=%ld\n",
shrinker->shrink, total_scan);
total_scan = max_pass;
}
...
but since 'total_scan' is of type 'unsigned long' it will never be
less than zero, so there is no way we'll ever enter the true branch of
this if statement - so let's just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 6 ------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Compile tested only.

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7ef6912..c07d9b1 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -271,12 +271,6 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
delta *= max_pass;
do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
total_scan += delta;
- if (total_scan < 0) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to "
- "delete nr=%ld\n",
- shrinker->shrink, total_scan);
- total_scan = max_pass;
- }

/*
* We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
--
1.7.6


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