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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Simplify for-loop in free_init_pages()
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On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 13:36 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
> > As a cleanup, move initial "addr" assignment to the for-loop construct
> > in free_init_pages().

Not really a good idea.

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
[]
> > @@ -349,8 +349,6 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
> > if (begin >= end)
> > return;
> >
> > - addr = begin;
> > -
> > /*
> > * If debugging page accesses then do not free this memory but
> > * mark them not present - any buggy init-section access will
> > @@ -371,7 +369,7 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
> >
> > printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);
> >
> > - for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> > + for (addr = begin; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> > ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
> > init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));
> > memset((void *)addr, POISON_FREE_INITMEM, PAGE_SIZE);
> > --

Now there's an unused variable warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC



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