ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case
Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations".
There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations.
1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the
standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to
NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the
caller, this looks cleaner.
2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker.
3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge
candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in
one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if
it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got
optimized away).
This patch (of 3):
When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller
stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune().
This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular
stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page
migration handling slow paths.
While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has
to deal with fewer special cases.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Holasek <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Gavin Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>