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mm/writeback: minor clean up for highmem_dirtyable_memory

Message ID 20220224115416.46089-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm/writeback: minor clean up for highmem_dirtyable_memory | expand

Commit Message

Miaohe Lin Feb. 24, 2022, 11:54 a.m. UTC 
Since commit a804552b9a15 ("mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirty_balance_reserve
subtraction from dirtyable memory"), local variable x can not be negative
values. And it can not overflow when it is the total number of dirtyable
highmem pages. Thus remove the unneeded comment and overflow check.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
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 mm/page-writeback.c | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 48a8cf770e3f..cdba72aa7fa9 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -326,18 +326,6 @@  static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
-	 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
-	 * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation
-	 * will underflow.  However we still want to add in nodes
-	 * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more
-	 * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never
-	 * underflows.
-	 */
-	if ((long)x < 0)
-		x = 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
 	 * than the number of the total dirtyable memory. This can only