From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:31:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: page allocator: check only once if the zonelist is suitable for the allocation
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~13889^2~152
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f82af9742a9346794ecc1515139daed480e7025;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

page allocator: check only once if the zonelist is suitable for the allocation

It is possible with __GFP_THISNODE that no zones are suitable.  This patch
makes sure the check is only made once.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bfbd95c0610f..6be8fcb6f74f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1483,9 +1483,8 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	if (should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order))
 		return NULL;
 
-restart:
-	z = zonelist->_zonerefs;  /* the list of zones suitable for gfp_mask */
-
+	/* the list of zones suitable for gfp_mask */
+	z = zonelist->_zonerefs;
 	if (unlikely(!z->zone)) {
 		/*
 		 * Happens if we have an empty zonelist as a result of
@@ -1494,6 +1493,7 @@ restart:
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
+restart:
 	page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask|__GFP_HARDWALL, nodemask, order,
 			zonelist, high_zoneidx, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW|ALLOC_CPUSET);
 	if (page)